A simple email-a habit that will help you be more productive

In this article you will learn about one useful trick with your e-mail, which will help you be more productive and faster to deal with things.

Today we will talk about one simple rule, which will help you get your email under control and do things more efficiently.

To do this, you will not need to study a book, watch a video, something to buy, download, or invent. All you need - it's just to start using what is already there in your email.

One simple rule

Click on the box / asterisk next to the message, if it matters to you.

That's all. Take a few minutes to ensure that now go to your email and mark with an asterisk or a flag (in Depending on your email: asterisk - Gmail, flags - Outlook and Mail.app for example) all the important emails, which you will need to sort out.

To mark a message, simply press the asterisk / check box next to the message, or use a combination of keyboard shortcuts:

gmail: S.
Outlook and Outlook.com: INSERT.
Mail.app: Cmd + Shift + L.

When you're done with this, you can archive the remaining letters, so they do not loomed before your eyes.

Make a list of cases with the help of your mail

Now go to the letter you mentioned. From now on, these letters - it's your to-do list. When you will understand the letters today, remove them with a mark or simply delete if they are no longer needed.

Looking ahead, I will say that you do not need to devote a lot of time with new letters - only two minutes or even less, in order to understand whether or not to put the asterisk / box. Your list of tasks - it only checked emails and not all emails in your inbox.

Even if in your inbox that you have no other task lists, to-do list is enough to make you all have time and do not forget.

With the help of e-mail, you can also set itself the task yourself: just send yourself an email and mark them with an asterisk / flag. This is a very quick and simple, do not even need to be at this time on the computer, only need a smartphone.

Filter in this manner all the letters is much easier than every time to scour the entire email mail (bumping into all the letters that you sent a week, month or even a year) in search of important letters, not right?

And finally,

1. If hot keys do not work for you, check the settings, whether they are included you.
2. If you understand that you can not manage its list of cases like this, check out Getting Things Done (Technique increase personal effectiveness, created by David Allen, literally means "to bring cases completion "). Of course, you need some time to deal with procedure, but eventually you will be able to increase its productivity and, therefore, will remain in the win.