Laura Mae Martin,  Executive Productivity Advisor at Google gives some tips on how to efficiently master your inbox challenges.  She wrote a useful overview on the occasion of Gmail´s fifteenth birthday in March 2019 and helps generally to use Google “products like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar to get more done during their busy days.”
Gmail initially had a storage capacity offer of one gigabyte per user, today, the service offers  15 gigabytes of storage. Users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes in size, including attachments They are allowed to send emails up to 25 megabytes. The service is available in 105 languages.
Everyone is used to writing, reading, forwarding and deleting email, but many of us certainly don´t take the time to really manage their inbox activities how they could. As to still not having enough structure in my mailbox, I am also still kind of a pupil concerning this topic 😉
Take her advice as support to “set ground rules to keep your energy up,”
Here are ten measures for the future handling of your Gmail inbox.
More details can be found in Laura Mae’s original article.

10 Gmail Tips

  • Cut down on notifications
  • Respond within 24 hours, even if it’s only to check-in
  • Closeout your email 1-2 times a day
  • Don’t click on an email more than twice
  • Sorting, reading and answering emails should be separate activities
  • Keep emails that require clear action—otherwise, archive or delete
  • Skip some emails
  • Don’t mix your read and unread emails
  • To stay focused, keep new email out of sight
  • To find what you need, just search

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