Over the past several months, our email inbox has been bogged down with coupon offers, expired deals, newsletters, and lots of other unwanted emails. I’ve tried several times to go through the emails, deleting ones we don’t want and organizing the rest into folders, but I just couldn’t keep up.
So yesterday I emptied our entire email inbox!
No, I didn’t simply delete all, though I did think it. Instead I moved all of the emails from our inbox into an “Emails to Sort” folder.
I’ve also determined to take care of sorting emails the first time I see them, to keep the crazy overgrown inbox from happening again.
Now our inbox can breathe a little while I know I haven’t deleted anything important. I can also find any emails I need with the search feature.
And someday I can sort through all those emails…like when the kids are grown.
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Cleaning my inbox is when I randomly choose a subject or sender and clear all the e-mails that show up under my search. So far I haven't noticed loosing anything important.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is something I so need to do. My inbox is overwhelming:( Thank you for hosting another great party this week.
ReplyDeleteI use the filters that Gmail provides and it saves so much time.
ReplyDeleteI also delete emails one by one and I never get anywhere with it, I have over a thousand! It is definitely overwhelming, I am going to try your way of getting the emails out of the inbox. Thanks for sharing!
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