How do I manage my inbox?
I will soon start a new job where I expect to receive significantly more emails than I do currently. So far, I haven't had a system in place, except for marking emails as unread until I respond and occasionally using flags.
I would like to change that practice, now that I have a clean slate. But how do I start managing my inbox?
I use Mac Mail and would like to continue using it. I know how to set up rules and create smart mailboxes etc., but I can't really see the potential.
Thank you!
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For me I set up my corporate inbox with tons of rules to automate sorting inbound emails to relevant folders. I worked in software support so I had folders for each company my team communicated with on a regular basis, folders for internal emails like announcements and business/facilities updates, and the general inbox just caught anything I hadn't created a rule for yet. Outlook folders all display unread counts to it was easy for me.
I didn't delete anything. I let my companies retention policy handle that.
Did you then reply from the folders, or what was the point of this sorting? Genuine question.
And can you give rule examples? Was it just @ending go to folder A? ☺️
Yeah basically the rules where "if from domain A go to folder A."
The organized folders basically served as a way to filter through stuff that I didn't need to respond to, break things down into tasks I actually needed to respond to, and to make it easier to search through later.
So if I got an email from user@xdomain, it would go to my xdomain folder and be listed as unread and I would respond from there. Then that email chain stayed in its appropriate folder.
Makes sense. Thank you 👍🏻