Are you a closet email hoarder? Is your inbox overflowing? Is your email account out of control?
Okay people….I
have a confession….a deep dark secret if you will!
Up until Saturday
morning, I had
unread emails in my inbox, and in total probably well over a thousand emails floating around my account.
So here are 4 easy steps that will help you organise your emails once and for all.....
Delete, delete,
delete!! Get rid of all those emails you haven’t read. If you haven’t read them
by now you’re not going to! Only keep emails that are important and that you
might need one day. For example – correspondence between you and your car
insurance company; mobile phone bills; important work emails etc.
Lots of the
emails, I hadn’t bothered to read were from a whole host of different companies
whose mailing lists I had ended up on. To unsubscribe from a mailing list,
simply scroll to the bottom of the email and click on the word unsubscribe.
Create folders
so that emails can be easily filed away and then more importantly easily found
when you need them. Categories I used included House, Work, Cars, Holiday,
Internet and Sprout. I also used sub-categories for example under the Internet
category there are two additional categories - Phone and Purchases.
Set up rules to
automatically sort your incoming mail. This takes seconds and will mean that
rather than having all your mail sitting in your inbox waiting to be filed or
deleted it will go straight into the folder you have allocated it. Just
remember to look out for unread mail in your folders other than your inbox!
As well as
cleaning up my inbox, I also deleted a load of old email addresses that were cluttering
up my inbox. So here it is, my sparkling and email free inbox......
Why not have a go at cleaning up
your own inbox?
Have a great week!
xox
Pop over and join the party!!
Always happy to meet another Email packrat! I have 265 unread Emails (just checked) and probably 2,000ish floating around in my inbox - and surprisingly I just cleaned it up last week because I had hit 500 unread. I do similar posts from time to time - some of my tricks that I use are a service called Unroll.me that helps eliminate unwanted Emails and take things like Groupons and Pinterest notifications puts them into a daily summary. It's quite handy. Also about every 3 months, I declare "Email bankruptcy" and shove it all into an archive folder (kind of like sweeping all your dirt under the rug). Then I can at least search for anything I actually do need. Good tips! I SO need to get better about this....
ReplyDeleteGlad I'm not the only one who ends up with email overload!!...
DeleteI have so many email inboxes, it would take me a lifetime to clear them out because they fill up just as quickly...
ReplyDeleteI know the feeling! I haven't touched my other accounts, but have found that setting up rules so the emails are delivered straight into the appropriate folder is really helping me to keep on top of this account!!
DeleteGlad to know that I'm not the only one with a huge amount emails in my inbox. At one point I ditched my email and made a new one...lol. Of course, now I do the folders, which is a great tip for anyone to follow.
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