Setup Kit chapterEmail
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Email is your other filing cabinet. Treat it like one.
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Your Dropbox holds your files. Your email holds everything else: conversations, confirmations, newsletters, invoices, links, and about 4,000 things you’ll never read.
Most people treat their inbox like a river. Things flow in, they glance at them, and they let them pile up. Unread count: 14,327. Sound familiar?
Your email needs the same discipline as your file system. Not more. Not less. Just the same principles applied to a different medium.
What this chapter covers
- Choosing a provider
- Labels first, filters later
- Junk mail: staying clean
- Never subscribe to emails
- Filters: automating what you already do by hand
- Keeping email and file structure aligned