Conquering email overload*

Objective: Learn how to change your relationship to your inbox

Steps:

• Look at current relationship to email openly and honestly
• Recognize that its up to you to figure out how to manage your email
• Learn how to "process to zero"
• Convert to actions

Actions:

• Delete
• Delegate
• Respond
• Defer
• Do

Other suggestions:

• Take email breaks
• Maintain "to-do" list separately
• Auto-archive or unsubscribe from listservs you don't read
• One place for archiving

Other resources:

• Getting Things Done
• Inbox Zero
• Inbox culture
• Xobni

*adapted from Merlin’s Inbox Zero Presentation (approx. 58 min)