Barrett Garese: How to actually deal with a ton of email in your inbox. 
Coming back from a two-week vacation, I have a ton of emails in my inbox. This isn’t an uncommon situation, but my preferred inbox status is “under ten.” As this seems unfathomable to many people, I often get asked how I actually make this happen.
So here’s how I get my inbox into single digit…
This is what I do, too, but what gets me is the “read this 10 page thing and then let me know what you think” emails. How do you handle them? Doing it right then messes up my flow, so I skip them, so then I end up with only 10-20 emails in my inbox, but they are all incredibly time-consuming.