Simplify Your Life Week: August 1-7

Simplify your life and your email box with these tips from columnist Gina Trapani! 

• Empty your inbox completely.• Set up three folders:
1. Archive
2. Follow Up
3. Hold

• Put important messages that don’t require a response in the first, ones that require quick responses in the second, and ones that require some further action before responding in the third.

• Delete the rest.

“Your inbox very clearly demarcates a line between messages you have processed and ones you have not,” Trapani says. “Your inbox should contain ones you haven’t processed; that’s what an inbox is for.”