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REDUCING E-MAIL VOLUME
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
—DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
You can do a number of things to reduce the amount of e-mail you receive:
• Unsubscribe.
• Create a delete rule.
• Create rules for projects and people.
• Tell people you’re making changes in your e-mail practices.
Taking the time to diminish the amount of incoming e-mail will have an immediate payoff. Try some of these methods to reduce the size of your inbox.
TIP 1: UNSUBSCRIBE
When you see an e-mail message in your inbox that you don’t want to read or keep, take the thirty seconds it takes to unsubscribe. If you can’t take those thirty seconds, create an “unsubscribe” folder and drag the message ...
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