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Control Your Email
Setting Up Your Email for Success (Savings = 17 mins/day)
1. Use search to find emails
2. Get comfortable using search to find emails
3. Master using search to find emails
4. Use search operators to find emails
QUIZ: The most productive way to find emails
ADVANCED QUIZ: How to find emails in Outlook fast
REFERENCE: Search operators for Outlook and Gmail
5. Create just 2 email folders
6. Move all archived emails into your 2 email folders
QUIZ: How to Set Up Your Email Folders
7. Turn on/set up email shortcuts for filing emails
QUIZ: How to file emails quickly
Clearing Out Your Inbox & Keeping it Clear (Savings = 43 mins/day)
8. File emails with these characteristics without reading or previewing them
QUIZ: The case for the clear inbox
QUIZ: How to clear out your inbox (Part 1)
9. Finish clearing out emails with specific characteristics (include these as needed)
10. Pick a to-do list app
11. Begin using your to-do list
12. Integrate your to-do list with your email application
QUIZ: How and why to integrate your email and to-do list
13. Use the Email Decision Tree to file or delete emails after reading them the first time
QUIZ: How to clear out your inbox (Part 2)
14. Automate the filing of newsletter-type emails into your Reading folder
QUIZ: What to do with newsletter-type emails
15. Unsubscribe from unwanted and unread subscription-based emails (newsletters, promotions)
16. Block and report spam
QUIZ: How to process other nonessential emails
How Many Times Should We Check Our Email
17. Create calendar invitations from emails
18. Save attachments to your file storage system
QUIZ: What would you do with this email?
How Often and When to Check Email (Savings = 21 mins/day)
19. Turn off email notifications
QUIZ: Email notifications: To have or not to have?
20. Check your email every hour or less
21. Divide your email checks between triaging and responding
22. Use a break reminder to check your email at a consistent frequency
QUIZ: How to check your email at the right frequency
23. Set your phone to 'do not disturb' mode for one hour at a time
QUIZ: When to check email on your phone
24. Give VIPs a hotline
25. Create conditional notifications (as needed)
26. Create rules/filters to automatically triage emails [for high-volume email users]
27. Automate processing and responding to certain emails [for high-volume email users]
Reinforce What You've Learned
28. If you forget or stop everything else, apply the single-touch rule
FINAL QUIZ #1
FINAL QUIZ #2
QUIZ: How to clear out your inbox (Part 1)
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