Communication and how we interact on a daily bases has changed. Mostly gone are the days we send lengthy letters or communications vial mail. We are in a society of connected individuals and our inboxes are paying the price.

Sometimes it seems impossible to look, and read every email that comes into our inbox and being able to tackle the overwhelming inbox daemon we are facing.

While I was tackling my inbox daemons I came across a blog John Battelle, Founder, Chair, CEO, Federated Media Publishing posted called “The Secret to “Cracking” The Inbox “.

I have found creating inbox rules for certain messages will keep my inbox clean.  For instance any article that comes in that is maybe just a great article to read and can be read at a later time/date goes into one file and a meeting request into another and will be responded to in the evening before I close out my inbox.

Unwanted emails, SPAM or Junk Mail go into another folder and are going to be blocked at the end of the week.

Emails without a subject line are automatically deleted and no one even gets to see them.

Every night make the point to clean out the inbox. It might take an hour the first time you do it. After a while it should be faster because you have created your personal inbox rules for your email.