I desperately need an email management system that can tame the chaos of my inbox. My current approach is "pretend it doesn't exist" which has obvious drawbacks. What are your ADHD-proof email tips?

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Inbox zero! Just recently started doing this. Basically make folders for all your active matters, sort anything that's complete into there unless you need to respond to it or follow up on it. You can have catch all folders for non-deal related items that you want to keep. And then delete everything else with impunity.

Use shortcuts to make it faster to sort things to your most used folders. Then just sort things as they come in and catch up once a week or every few days if you fall behind

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This sounds like a very helpful and reasonable suggestion and yet my second thought was “you’ll forget that folder exists” 🤣🤣🤣. Do you have to set reminders to go back and check it?

I make inbox subfolders for each matter I’m handling. An email doesn’t get moved into the appropriate subfolder until it’s been addressed and billed for. It forces me to also delete the junk, and basically keeps the main inbox manageable as a to do list.

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This is what I do. Ideally I would be at inbox zero each day, but I have to leave emails that I can’t address until someone else provides a response or information. If im around 15-20 emails in there it’s a good day.

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Where do you go right now to see for a given case: 1) what you need to do in the future or 2) what happened previously?

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