Comments on: 5 Tips for Email Maintenance

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:32:22 +0000

This is a great reminder as everyone I know gets totally bogged down in e-mail! Thanks

By: Latrice-Opulent Couturier

Latrice-Opulent Couturier — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:55:23 +0000

Thanks so much for this blog post! Much needed for me! I just reduced my inbox by several hundred emails….I actually feel lighter…Imagine that!!!

By: Raquel

Raquel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:14:49 +0000

Great post Michelle! I’m definitely going to try setting aside 30 minutes a day to clean out my e-mail. I probably have e-mails from a few years ago that I’ve kept because “I may need them some day”. It’s funny because I’m not that way when it comes to my home/closet. I have no problem donating something to Good Will if it hasn’t been used in the past year. Now I just need to apply that same logic to my inbox – thanks for the great tips!

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By: Eliza

Eliza — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:27:21 +0000

I’ve been working on this issue myself. I’m down to 53 emails in my inbox now, and I want to get it down to the single digits.

As I’ve been clearing out the oder emails, I notice over and over again that the ones sitting around for ages are the ones that require something painful to do–a no to someone I’d rather say yes to, or a complicated request I don’t quite understand. Those are the ones that bedevil me…

By: Lauren @ten23designs

Lauren @ten23designs — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:05 +0000

#1 hit home for me… I usually try to wake up an hour early to respond to emails and then end up stuck there with the new ones coming in… Starting next week, I’m going to try it your way!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:22 +0000

Thanks for the great post! The timing for me is perfect as I am starting to run into “email” overload! Can’t wait to start scheduling in my 30 minute clearing time!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:03 +0000

Love this post, Michelle! Cleaning out a massive inbox can be a real monster of a task…but if we take a systemized approach to it, it CAN be an easy thing!

By: Sharon Alexander

Sharon Alexander — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:31:56 +0000

Soooo need help with this! My inbox is in the thousands. Just can’t keep up with it.

By: Yara @ Bridal Horizons

Yara @ Bridal Horizons — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:05:57 +0000

Great post!

First, timing wise, I blocked 2 hours every day for email maintenance. One hour between 11 and 12 and one between 4pm and 5pm.

I personally created an additional e-mail account just to archive email. So when I get an urgent email, I deal with it right away and delete it. If it’s not urgent, it will stay in my inbox as unread. If it’s something I need to archive, I send it to my archive e-mail account.
That way I don’t have to look at it anymore.

I could just put it in a seperate folder, but that way I have more space for archiving.

It works for me!