Email organization is the bane of office life. When working in a large team, it's common to receive dozens of emails every day, and if you have any kind of public email address, you could receive hundreds. It's easy to drown under all those emails.
And the sad thing is that most of us only use two categories of email:Inbox and Trash. Add the juggling of multiple email accounts and you have a recipe for chaos. If you're afraid to open your inbox, you can benefit from using Gmail's sub-labels.
For example, you can create a tag for “Work” and then sub-tags for different projects, a sub-tag for refundable receipts, a sub-tag for threads between you and your boss, etc.
Be sure to increase your Gmail efficiency in other ways too, like using filters for extra organization. 5 Gmail filters to help prioritize and organize your inbox. 5 Gmail filters to help prioritize and organize your inbox. What filters should each person have in their arsenal to make their inbox as tidy as mine? I'm here to help you get started setting up your first five filters, or... Read More email and forwarding in Gmail to better manage Life By now, most people are aware of the nifty tricks you can use on your Gmail address called aliases, which allow you to give people different email addresses that reach the same email address. inbox... Read More organizing email, the immediate reaction is usually folders, labels, filters, priority marks, and the like. Not that any of them are bad; in fact, most of… Read more .
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