Anyone
Have creative strategies for working through a very active email inbox? I use outlook. I’ve tried “rules” - which I don’t think I’m doing the best - I’m exploring one note. About 50% of my emails require action or follow up. I’ve researched various methods but nothing is sticking with me.
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Do you have the new outlook where you can use pins? Thos help for lingering things that require longer responses. I try to file out everything that is complete/doesnt need a response ASAP so my inbox is my todo list, but tbh sometimes I get so many emails that doesnt even work. I have these really awesome checklist notebooks (like actual paper) that is used to keep a list of tasks i need to circle back to. On old outlook, you could turn off the send/receive function so that you could access all your emails but werent being influxed by more at the same time. Any thing you sent would sit in queue and go out once you toggled send/receive back on. New outlook doesnt have that unfortunately 😔 but if you move a handful of emails to a working folder and ignore the actual inbox, that could help with some of the distractions from inactivity. Im also a proponent of stacked/nested conversations.
i just use folders in archive and then have sub folders.