clean out my email inbox

I still haven’t gone through my “To Review” folder, but my school email box is still empty. I’ve been trying to keep in top of it and process it to empty daily. This means that if the email requires a response, I actually respond to it quickly and then delete it. If the email is providing information that needs to be on my to do list then I write the relevant information on my to do list and delete it. The nice thing is that my emails still get archived so I know that if I still need to look at the email it’s still there somewhere, but it’s not cluttering my in box and I don’t have that anxious feeling like I should be doing something. The system is not entirely perfected, but it’s almost there.

I haven’t touched my three other email addresses though. I think I also have too many email addresses.

I have 4 active email account. One is for school. That one is always bloated and I need to keep in check. One is personal. Another is for junk. And yet another is for my online identity.

Seeing my school email so full gives me the most anxiety so I’m tackling that first. I use Outlook, so I just took all 3000 of the emails and dumped them in a file called “review”, so my inbox is actually empty. I think that helps psychologically. I am going to go through that review file whenever I have the time and delete, archive and respond as needed.