more tips to empty your inbox

Had a little exercise here at our Leadership Network staff meeting. The question posed, "how do you keep your email inbox empty?" We had a enthralling conversation about the topic, and even a few dissenting voices that don't care to keep an empty inbox. (Well, that's one way to do it.)

Here's the list we came up with; we were looking for 10, we kinda ran out of time at #5:

• sort by sender
• create side folders
• Mike Hyatt's blog tips ->
  "Yes, You Can Stay on Top of Email"
• sort of date (ascending)
• after you reply, delete or file
• use junk mail filter

Personally, I've been using the process outlined in Total Workday Control, which is loosely based on Getting Things Done. There's also a great blog series titled Inbox Zero that comes with a 1-hour video describing that process -- especially great for those of you who'd prefer to watch a video instead of reading.

How do you keep your inbox empty?

-- DJ CHUANG, Leadership Community Director at Leadership Network

Comments

[Chris S.]

Shhh...don't tell but sometimes I use a three step process:
1. Select All
2. Archive
3. Search keywords if I need to find it later

:-)