A task has a due date and a sense of progression. It can be marked complete; an email cannot. By turning emails into tasks, ...

Managing your e-mail inbox can be discouraging, especially if you receive hundreds of messages a day. As messages build up, the task of reading and addressing each one may seem impossible. So perhaps ...

You probably spend a lot of time dealing with email. A 2012 McKinsey Global Institute study stated that "The average interaction worker spends an estimated 28% of the workweek managing e-mail." For a ...

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If you have been using the same email address for a significant period of time, it's likely that you receive hundreds of messages every day that you just don't need or care about. Whether it's ...

Your email inbox is a lot like a garden: you have to prune it so it doesn’t grow wild. More literally, it’s not much different than your physical mailbox. If you don't empty and organize its contents ...

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A CEO's email inbox can quickly become unruly if not properly managed. While being constantly bombarded with emails from various recipients making different asks of them, many CEOs may find they get ...

Does your stress level skyrocket every time you open that email inbox? Is your snail mail stacked up, waiting for you to take action? It's time to clear the clutter, and Kory Kogan, author of "The 5 ...

You’ve been away from your desk for an hour—just one hour!—and already, you’ve got 20 or 30 email messages stacked up in your inbox. It could be nothing more than the usual pile of newsletters, retail ...

A few months ago, I started feeling like my inbox owned me. I spent my days pushing around emails, opening and closing them without responding, flagging some for later, marking some unread. I was ...