Discovering over a thousand emails in your inbox (unless you’re a self-obsessed celebrity who is expecting an overwhelming number of “I love you” or “You’re the Best!” emails from your fans) is quite unnerving. Luckily for you though, an email overload is still somewhat manageable. Here are three easy steps to help you manage email overload (that is, without downloading an automatic email reader/responder).
1. Enable spam filters
A bulk of the emails in your inbox is probably composed of spam emails: unsolicited emails that are sent to either market a retail product or to activate a computer threat. To separate spam emails from ordinary emails, all you need to do is to enable the spam filters installed in the webmail you are using.
2. Delete unimportant emails
Browse through the subject lines appearing in your inbox. Are they all important? If you notice some emails that don’t seem that important at all, then just go ahead and delete them. There’s no use in keeping everything in your inbox. For all you know, some of them are just unfiltered spam emails.
3. Create email folders
To lessen the number of unread emails and to make room for incoming emails in your inbox, organize your emails into different folders: emails from your family, from your friends, from your boss, from your colleagues, from your clients, from your bank manager, from your groups, or from your subscriptions. Sorting your emails into several folders, after all, makes it easier for you to read them.