Comments on: 11 Tips for Dealing With Email Overload

By: John S.

John S. — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:17:30 +0000

Check out http://www.mermailer.com for a great, simple way to reduce the number of subscriptions hitting your primary inbox. The free service combines and organizes promotional and social networking email you want to receive into a single “summary” email that is delivered to you at your specified frequency. So you get one email instead of ten, twenty, etc. Plus by using the mermailer address the service gives you, you protect your primary email address from disclosure.

By: Guy Wyers

Guy Wyers — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:05:43 +0000

Excellent points, most of them pretty drastic, but without advise like this, there is no way to stop the flood.
‘Aggressively archiving into folders’, is something I fully subscribe to and for which we have built an automated solution that goes beyond rules: Tagwolf (http://www.tagwolf.com). It’s an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that predicts the most likely folder for each email and suggests it to the user. The user confirms the folder and files the email with a simple mouse click. This represents an important time saving compared to manually dragging the email to a specific folder within a complex folder structure.

By: Nathan Zeldes

Nathan Zeldes — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:41:47 +0000

One of the better lists of this kind in a while; every tip worth its weight in Time (much more precious than gold…)

As to dumping email into folders – this gets even better if one makes sure to have and use a powerful local search tool (e.g. Google Desktop, or – if you want to get what you pay for – X1 Search), so that it doesn’t even matter what the folder system is, you can always find the one email you need later.

By: Kirill Maximov

Kirill Maximov — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:26:37 +0000

Regarding item 8 – Get tasks onto a to-do list, one should consider using a tool which allows to send your e-mails to the task list seamlessly.
Checkvist and Todoist are known to have such integration.

Good article!

By: Steven L. Lubetkin APR Fellow PRSA

Steven L. Lubetkin APR Fellow PRSA — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:53:58 +0000

ClearContext is an add-in for Outlook that filters bacn and spam into folders out of the inbox, and also scores your email by priority based on analyzing your email traffic with various recipients, so that high priority emails are identified and color coded in red, less important ones are green, and unimportant ones are black. Does a great job organizing your inbox. We spoke to ClearContext’s Brad Meador in 2007 on the CompuSchmooze podcast, which you can hear at http://www.lubetkin.net/2007/01/23/compuschmooze-podcast-19-digital-downloading-behavior-and-a-new-add-in-for-outlook-1232007/

By: Nico Granelli

Nico Granelli — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:42:39 +0000

I read this in google adwords, and for my surprise, I’m already doing all the points :)

Only a comment: I have a separated email acount for facebook and twitter, and I almost never open that account

By: Todd K.

Todd K. — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:53:15 +0000

I tend to let email pile up so I use a gmail filter label (“D”)to denote things that I’ll want to delete later. For example, Plancast event notices…I want to see them, but don’t need to be saved. Every few weeks I’ll just click the “D” label and delete them all with one swift karate chop rather than having to look through them individually.

By: Jack C

Jack C — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:10:25 +0000

To borrow the parlance of the week, +1 to #1. Simply unsubscribing from the clutter can let email be email.