📬How do you organize your e-mail inbox?

Unread first. That's it.

I like to organise my inbox like I do my daily tasks. The most important stuff at the top and the rest below. We use gmail so labels, stars and flags keep all my topics sorted. I mark anything I don't care to see as spam and delete the rest. At one time I used tool called Sanebox, it was very helpful for filtering out garbage emails. My only complaint is that the other saneboxes became bloated over time because I never looked at them. Another helpful tool for me are rules. I'll set rules and triage incoming mail into different folders for reading later. Hope this helps!

I used to organize emails into folders based on subjects... and frankly I ended up with too many folders and it was hard to find cross-subject emails. I've since simplified my folders to: 1. Inbox 2. Today (reply/action today) 3. This week (reply/action this week) 4. This month (reply/action this month) 5. FYI (where most end up) In this way, they're organized as to-dos and easily searchable. And I delete anything that doesn't seem long-term important.

I use a program called gnus for Emacs, which I will not recommend to anyone here. Gnus allows you to assign a score to an email based on any criteria that you can come up with. Content in the subject line, in the body, maybe the sender? I then assign a colour to each email depending on the score and have a hierarchy of which colours I should tackle first. The goal is that all incoming emails are scored and coloured but that's unachievable, so I'm happy with this affecting ~80%.

My favorite one so far : "Inbox Zero". it's a different approach but works well. It's basically keeping the inbox empty at all times to avoid confusing it with a "to-do" list!

I use folders and labels to organize my inbox. This makes it easier for me to search through all the messages related to a specific topic or project. I also use filters and rules in outlook so that only particular types of messages get delivered directly into my Inbox folder.

Gmail has labels that I use to help organize. Still a complete mess though, I just start important stuff or mark it as unread to keep it at the top. 🤣😂🤣

In my outlook I organised emails into folders based on subjects. Until today it works. I realised here that I wont be working as soon as I have many amount of folders and it will be difficult to find and managed it. Also don't keep emails I really don't need.