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spytap:

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. 

  1. rickwebb reblogged this from spytap and added:
    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....
  2. wakeuphappy reblogged this from spytap and added:
    I use the same strategy! Don’t know how people can stand to have hundreds of emails in their inbox
  3. andrewpettit said: It’s incredible what a gratifying feeling zero’ing out your inbox can be. I do some of what you layout above, but I use the GTD method of labeling my emails as Follow-up/Hold/Read. Anything not labeled gets Archived or Deleted.
  4. nudawn said: I go through the same process but I think its cute it only takes you an hour. If I’m out of the office a week it would take me a full eight hours to catch up on my inbox. Sometimes more.
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