My inbox is full of important emails being buried alive by trivial ones. Please advise!
My inbox is full of important emails being buried alive by trivial ones. Please advise!
Here’s the first step to an organized email inbox: Unsubscribe from as much junk as possible. But even if you manage to stem the rush, some notes still slip through. As my colleague Nicole Ngyuen recently reported, Gmail and Outlook offer features that promise to solve the problem. But I’ve found that Gmail’s organizational tools mostly help you manage emails you’ve already received.
Here’s the first step to an organized email inbox: Unsubscribe from as much junk as possible. But even if you manage to stem the rush, some notes still slip through. As my colleague Nicole Ngyuen recently reported, Gmail and Outlook offer features that promise to solve the problem. But I’ve found that Gmail’s organizational tools mostly help you manage emails you’ve already received.
My problem and yours is that we want things to arrive already organized so we don’t have to waste time being a rushed operations manager. I’ve found some relief from the gear-shaped settings icon. Click on “See all settings” and tab to “Inbox”. Then, under “Inbox type,” check the “Unread first” box. This helpful arrangement brings all unread emails to the top of your queue and makes the Mark Unread button your best friend.
My problem and yours is that we want things to arrive already organized so we don’t have to waste time being a rushed operations manager. I’ve found some relief from the gear-shaped settings icon. Click on “See all settings” and tab to “Inbox”. Then, under “Inbox type,” check the “Unread first” box. This helpful arrangement brings all unread emails to the top of your queue and makes the Mark Unread button your best friend.
Unfortunately, not all unread emails are created equal. But I found a way to use the “Multiple Inboxes” option in “Inbox Type” to rearrange things so that unread messages from my co-workers appear first, then those from a group of freelance contractors. Everything else gathers underneath.
Unfortunately, not all unread emails are created equal. But I found a way to use the “Multiple Inboxes” option in “Inbox Type” to rearrange things so that unread messages from my co-workers appear first, then those from a group of freelance contractors. Everything else gathers underneath.
To get this setup yourself, you first need to create a filter for emails from specific addresses. First, click the icon (it looks like a stack of three lines) to the right of the inbox’s search bar. On the “From” line, place all addresses of everyone whose messages you want to group in curly brackets, e.g. B. {[email protected], [email protected], …}. This is annoying, but less so if you do it in a separate document first, then paste it.
