Drives me nuts when someone is presenting on a projector in a meeting and their emails keep popping up on the screen.

I have always avoided the email “filter” technique. For me, I turn off notifications and other repeat emails. Also, I use a todo list that allows me to email items to it, so I avoid sending emails to myself. (Check out http://www.Goodtodo.com)

Great tip about taking care of entire email threads at a time!

Thanks for sharing!

and dont keep looking in the inbox all the time.
some people have a pop-up window or even some kind of sound when they get email.
interruptions?!

I check my email 3 times a day, morning, noon and at the end of the workday.

and i also ask myself this:
what am i going to do with this email?
is it someting i have to respond to?
or
do i just have to keep it?
or
ok i read it, now i can throw it

then i put it in one of my “boxes”
“action”, something i have to do with it
“ref”, something that might come in handy later sometime
or the trash

I really like T.M.N.C
almost like teenage mutant ninja turtle <LOL>

cowabonga!!

I would add set up strategic filters. For instance, I have filters that separate my Facebook notifications from the rest of my email. I also had a filter for a while that would make an email copy and put it into my “waiting for” file anytime I cc'd myself to my own email. This made it much faster to follow up on basic emails without manually adding them to a separate list.

For work email, when triaging a big inbox in Outlook after being offline for a day or more, I view the emails by thread instead of straight chronological order. Oftentimes, I can then skim through whole threads much faster (sometimes just reading the top one) because I'm looking at conversations instead of trying to piece together timelines and disjointed bits of dialogue.