Anyone have tips for how to keep email organized? I use Gmail in Outlook with SMTP so I can't color code or anything. I've got 50-100 emails incoming a day and I've cut back so now I am trying to organize. I find I lose things if I do folders!!
I use folders, but only after I know I don't have to "do" anything with an email. Most of the time I just deal with the emails as they come, but I am currently pretty backed up and it's annoying me. I just have too many other things going on lately and once I get behind I just kind of give up for awhile.
lol i don't...i've been on a long process of trying to pare down and delete emails. I was at almost 30,000 emails, now I'm down to less than 10,000 but it's slow going with so much coming in each day. I do star everything I think I want to keep and then go through my starred emails every couple of weeks and delete what is no longer needed (i.e. michaels coupons or an email I need to respond to). I love the idea of folders in my email, but I've never really figured out a way to implement them that I'm happy with. I do have a folder for email from one group that would overrun my inbox otherwise but other than that I'm just trying to get rid of the all of the excess right now.
I use gmail in my browser (and on my phone, of course) and I have things "tagged" and color coded. I only "archive" or have things in folders after I've taken care of them and read them. But they are still tagged, and so if I want to, I can pull up that tag (or several-- you can tag an email with unlimited things) later. I love it! Campfire Chic (Kam) does a really great tutorial on Gmail labels if you're interested.
The Daily Digi did a great post on this once, it made me feel like such a chaotic mess LOL. I have an inbox of well, lets just say thousands. I go and delete a few every so often which is like a drop in the bucket. If its something that I know I need to get back to, I will star it, otherwise, I go on a hunt through my inbox. *sigh*
I use the folders and labels on GMail; some emails that I get on a regular basis are marked as important. Usually I put things in folders after I have read them or whatever I plan to do. Even with that...my email is not very organized. I hate reading email unless it's something I've been expecting....soooo it tends to just pile up and I just use the search function to find what I need when I think about it (if I think about it..lol!)
I hate emails. I have the most unorganized email box. I do have folders but I just lose things in them. Thank goodness for the search feature. Sigh.
