I’ve noticed that when I get stressed at work, it’s often because my email inbox is out of control. I’ve got hundreds of unread emails, with no idea which ones are important. I finally decided I needed to learn how to be much more effective with email, so I came up with a few strategies.

Thanks to David Allen and Tim Ferriss, I created a few simple rules to keep me on top of the madness, and here they are:

1. Check your email twice a day, but never right when you get into the office
2. Mark important emails with a star or label
3. Mark other emails that require a response (but are not urgent) as ‘Later’.
4. Archive them all to clear your inbox
5. Finally, master keyboard shortcuts to make answering and writing email much faster

In the video below, I walk you through the whole process. Hope you enjoy it. If you have any tips you’d like to share, please do so below!

Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/christopherdale

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