How I Spend 5 Minutes Per Day on Email

the process of “getting through your email” actually generates more email. The general principle in operation is one you might call the “efficiency trap.” Rendering yourself more efficient—either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having “enough time,” because, all

Unless it is time-urgent, don’t take significant actions on e-mails when you first read them. Instead, quickly place a corresponding action entry in your task system, and continue to read or scan all your new mail to the bottom of your in-box. Then file that mail out of the in-box, and work tasks off your Now Tasks list.

Create an email account to be used for outgoing email only. You can set it up anywhere, but using one of the popular webmail services makes it easy to add to your phone. 2. Set up email forwarding so that any replies to the new account will instantly go to your normal account, leaving the new account’s inbox perpetually empty. 3. Add the new accoun

Organize the messages in your e-mail in-box like you would your paper files.