Cleaning Your Email Inbox…

Whether it be Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora or just plain Gmail.com. With GTD (Getting Things Done) and productivity tips and approach being one of my 2009 resolution’s I thought I’d share some tips on Organizing and cleaning your E-mail Inbox.

E-MAIL!

First and foremost , set a day or some time either after reading this post or now to just look at your inbox gmail, hotmail, yahoo whatever and just plain old CLEAN IT OUT!

Start off by deleting junk and then go into your back pages to delete the emails you never check anymore also make sure you don’t delete anything important that you needed from past e-mails  I.e-

Software Keys, Product Recipts etc.

After you got the majority of your e-mail cleaned out look into organizing the remaining so it dosen’t pile up again.

LABELING- Gmail along with other email providers or even built in email integrators such as Thunderbird have labeling for certain categories or you can just make your own.

Examples of mine are:

Software/Product Receipts/Keys

Tech-World Applications

SPONSORS/PR  EMAILS

and so on.

So just sort out for whats relevant for you.

EMAIL PROVIDERS AND PROGRAMS

If you have multiple emails for multiple things like personal , spam etc that works out great to organize but checking them all is a pain, that’s were integrating them all in one works out.

Here you have 2 solutions-

Using A application like Thunderbird or Outlook -To integrate all your email accounts

MY VIDEO ON SETTING UP THUNDERBIRD=  http://wiurl.com/vrba/

Your Other option is FORWARDING- forward simply works by you get an email at for example

test1@gmail.com that email then sends a copy or forwards it to another email like test2@gmail.com

both work great while using labels etc.

KEEPING IT CLEAN

Manage your time when checking your mail set appropiate time for your client to update with messages so it dosen’t distract you. Delete emails that you know are spam or you just don’t need anymore otherwise they PILE UP TRUST ME.

Cycle Process

You have to stick with your new tips and tools by managing each every time you either set lables, clean out your inbox etc. Doing it once won’t help you have to STICK WITH IT!

Hope this helps get your Inbox under control check out these great sites for more tips

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