5 Hacks for Efficient Email Management That’ll Streamline Your Inbox

Do you also have a love-hate relationship with your email inbox? You are not alone. While emails can be incredibly useful to keep you informed, they can be equally overwhelming. It may keep you stressed, and you may end up missing out on important emails too. So, here are five hacks that’ll help you streamline your inbox and make email management efficient for you. Let’s go!?

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Organise Your Emails into Folders?

You can’t simply delete emails in your inbox. So, one easy way for email management is to create labels and folders. Store emails in folders to keep them out of your main inbox and cut down on clutter. Name these folders after a particular project or topic. Labels are another organisational tool you can use to manage your emails. Instead, you can just search the label name and view emails with that label.?

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Flag Emails That Are Crucial?

Flagging emails will allow you to mark crucial emails you’d like to come back to later. It doesn’t remove them from your inbox, and you know the emails you need to focus on next. That eases half of your work and email management feels less of work and more of just knowing what’s crucial at this point and what’s not.??

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Set Up Filters??

You may have a stream of new emails coming into your inbox every day. No matter how well you organise them, you can still end up missing out on a few. So, applying filters to all the emails that come into your inbox can allow you to send them to the correct folder, add the correct label, archive, or delete them. Set rules based on specific criteria like the sender’s address, keywords in the subject line, or certain attachments. This way, all the unimportant emails, newsletters, or promotional messages can go into a separate folder, and you can focus on priority messages in your main inbox. Review and adjust these rules to adapt to your changing email requirements to ensure your email management is not complex.?

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Use The “Archive” Feature?

You may have emails that are unimportant or not as urgent as others, but you also cannot delete them. Use the archive feature for emails like this. It removes those from your inbox and stores them for later. Once you’re ready to pick it up, you can pull the email up, complete the task, and delete it when finished.?

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Unsubscribe From Unwanted Email Lists?

We all have added our email addresses to various subscription lists. But a lot of us forget to unsubscribe from them when we don't need it. So, periodically review the newsletters in your inbox, promotional emails, or updates to omit irrelevant relevant. Take a few minutes to unsubscribe from this newsletter to make email management easy.??

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Managing emails can be a time-consuming task. Using these five hacks can help you in email management and won’t bog down your productivity when you see your inbox. If you liked this newsletter, subscribe to Success Strategies with Chegg and follow our LinkedIn page too!