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With a face-paced job, it’s not hard to find yourself with an unmanageable amount of emails sitting in your inbox. Maybe you’ve read some of them, while others are waiting to get your attention. Whatever form of chaos your inbox is in, there’s a simple way to bring order to it by following these two steps.
- Keep the emails that require your attention in your inbox. These include ones that you have already read, but have yet to take action on. They may also include ones that you’ve opened but that frightened you by their length, so you decided to hold off on reading them until later. So, emails that require you to read them, write back to them, forward them, or do some other action, should be kept in your inbox.
- Folder emails that you should keep for your records, but that do not require your attention. You can create folders based on whatever method makes the most sense for you. If you’re at a loss for how to categorize emails, think of how you would search for the emails in a few months when you need to recall something. Use those key phrases to label your folders.
How do you organize your email inbox? Share your tips with us in the comments below.