Drowning in Emails??

Which of the following can you relate to?

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I have always been more of “pristine inbox” type of person, so the first example really stresses me out. How do you big inbox people manage that? Regardless of how you deal with your inbox, there is no escaping that email management is a must in today’s corporate environment. In an informal poll that I recently conducted here on LinkedIn, the average user reported receiving around 100 work emails per day, with some users reporting over 300! With that many emails coming in daily, it is easy to get drowned in emails and miss the important ones. One easy way to manage a large email load is to utilize the Inbox Rules feature built into Outlook. Rules can be generated to handle nearly every email related situation you will run into. Need to delete all emails from a specific user, or flag all emails with a specific word in the subject and move them into their own folder, or maybe mark all emails from your boss with high importance? All of this and much more can be setup using Outlook Rules.

Learning how you manage email best and implementing tools such as Inbox Rules to assist you will be vital skill throughout your career and, the good news is, you can start developing that skill today! Follow the steps below to implement Rules to start managing your inbox more effectively.

In your outlook setting search for and select “Inbox Rules”

Select “+ Add new rule”

Give the new Rule a Title, add conditions according to what your situation dictates, and then tell Outlook what action to take when your conditions are met. It's that easy! Start using Rules and take back control of your emails!

What type of inbox person are you? Let me know down in the comments.