You can use one or more of the tools covered in this article to help shrink your Inbox and to make it easier to find the information you need.
In this episode, David and Merlin talk about email. We learn that David coaches people to deal with a high volume of messages by treating them like you would any other input.
Eighty percent indicated that they had major issues with email and a full third felt overwhelmed. Not surprisingly, respondents indicated that keeping email organized was a huge problem, second only to spam. I have one piece of advice for everyone who gets more email than they can process in a day: get yourself an email management strategy.
For those of you who just received the email about getting David's tips for managing email, I would like to offer the following three suggestions. I have been teaching this modified version for six years, and it has been working very well. As David says, "as simple as possible, but no simpler".