If there are some subscription emails you’d still like to get, you can combine all those into a single email digest (called your Rollup). will then present you a list of email addresses that look to be subscriptions and ask you if you want to unsubscribe or “add to Rollup.” Click unsubscribe and you’ll no longer get that email. Connect your Gmail or Yahoo email to, and the site goes through your inbox to find subscription emails. A more efficient way would be to use one of the many mass unsubscribe tools out there on the market. The hard and long way to do this is to open each unwanted message one by one as they come in and click the “unsubscribe” option within. Get a handle on your bacn by unsubscribing from lists you no longer wish to be on. Sometimes bacn is useful - like The Art of Manliness newsletter! - but usually it’s a nuisance. Technically, it’s not spam email because you’ve given permission (even if you didn’t realize it at the time). But what can you do about those newsletters and coupon deals you yourself have signed up for over the years? Pronounced “bacon” (it’s a techie term – it’s “better than spam, but not quite as good as a personal message”), these are emails that you’ve subscribed to, but you never open them, they clutter up your inbox, and they’re annoying. Mass unsubscribe from bacn. Most email providers do a decent job of preventing spam from hitting your inbox. Let me check that out….” *spends another 20 minutes surfing Facebook.*) Visit the account settings pages on all the social media sites you belong to and turn off ALL email notifications.
(“Ooo… someone posted a comment on my Facebook photo. You’ll see those updates when you actually visit those sites anyway, so why have them gunk up your inbox? Moreover, those notifications are just distractions waiting to happen. Turn off notifications from social media sites. You don’t need to get emails every time someone responds to a tweet or Facebook comment or when someone connects with you on LinkedIn. The first step to take in conquering your email is reducing the number of emails arriving in your inbox. Do it now!įirst, listen to our podcast with Cal Newport about why email is making us all miserable and what to do about it: I highly encourage you to implement many of these steps as soon as you read them it’s so easy to put off taking action in this area and then never get to it.
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Below I share what I’ve learned on minimizing the amount of email I receive and how to process it quickly and effectively. Answering emails now constitutes a far, far smaller percentage of my day than it used to. While I admittedly haven’t gotten a complete handle on managing my email effectively, I’ve made huge strides over the years. How can we vanquish the mighty beast that lurks in our inboxes and let peace once more reign throughout the land? And it still can, but more often than not it morphs into a time-devouring, stress-inducing, legacy-work destroying monster. When email was created, it was meant to streamline our communication and make it more efficient. The time-suck created by email has forced some companies to create draconian no-email policies to force their employees into actually being productive. Times, recent studies have found that the average employee spends up to a third of their day answering email instead of doing productive work. We’re not alone in feeling both drained and chained to our inbox. Even if we had some time to actually get to writing, our willpower was so drained from having to make so many choices about how to respond that we just didn’t have the mental energy or focus to effectively shift to a different task.
At the end, we’d feel a bit of relief that we had cleared our inboxes, but simultaneously feel anxiety that we didn’t get to what’s important to us and the site. Kate and I used to have times where we spent nearly an entire day going through and processing email instead of researching and writing content for our fantastic readers. As someone who makes his living working entirely online, I get a lot of email.
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