Struggle to get your Inbox under control?
I paid $200 for Hey.com subscription because of the promise it had for helping tame my Inbox. Later I realized, you can’t control Email with one tool.
I now spend less than 10 mins each day on email.
You need 3 tools to fight your Inbox
Email Client
You could use Gmail but there are better email clients that can help you process the email faster.
I use Shortwave these days. It’s a free client and speeds up my email processing 10x compared to Gmail
To-Do Manager
A lot of your to-dos are generated from your email. I used to mark these as unread before and keep unread till I complete the action. Slowly the unread count gets unmanageable. Now I create To-dos and archive the email.
I use @RoamResearch for managing my to-dos
Read It Later Client
This is to capture the newsletter subscriptions that fill up your inbox. I use @getmatterapp as my Read It Later.
I forward any articles I want to read to my save.getmatter email and archive them.
This is for sure #1 improvement in my time spent on email
So in order to tame your email, stop depending on just your default Gmail interface and get these 3 free tools