3 Inbox Organisation Hacks That Will Change Your Life

Inbox overwhelm is REAL, and it can keep otherwise organised business owners feeling bogged down in admin and comms. When I take on email management clients, the number 1 warning I get is, “there’s absolutely no structure to it at all!”

And honestly, this can be the single most detrimental thing to your productivity. A cluttered inbox really does equal a cluttered mind, and it can do WONDERS to put your mind at ease to know you’re not missing anything important!

Because not everyone has someone to manage the mess for them, here are my top 3 inbox organisation hacks that you can implement now to save your time and your sanity:

👉 TIP #1: Hit that snooze button!! ⏰

One of my favourite email features from the last few years is the snooze button! When an email comes in, if you’re not ready to deal with it yet, you just snooze it. You can choose when you want it to come back into your inbox, either from recommended times or at a custom time. And don’t worry – if you find out you need it, you can still search for it!

👉 TIP #2: Unsubscribe from anything you don’t read!! 📨

We’re soooo optimistic when we subscribe to things, aren’t we? But the reality is that we don’t actually read most of the marketing emails we subscribe to. If you don’t have a couple of hours to spare to go through and do a sweep, use a service like Unroll.Me to help you weed out the subscriptions you don’t want. And be REALISTIC when you unsubscribe – if you haven’t read them so far, you probably won’t start now.

👉 TIP #3: Set up ALLLL of the folders, and then automate them!! 📂

There is NO such thing as too many folders in your inbox! As long as you nest them properly, you should set them up however makes sense to you. Then you can create rules so that emails from certain senders or with certain key phrases go into those folders, saving your main inbox for the most important ones.