We interrupt this crisis to ask a boring question. How do you manage the never ending onslaught of email? How do you organize countless topical articles that you want to retain?

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I use a ton of folders.

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1. If you find a good solution I will pay you $100 in cash and name my next child or pet after you.

2. I use paper files organized by topics because I can find things more quickly that way. But what do I know: I’m also old and didn’t know Feedly was a thing until I read LS1’s post.

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Lol!

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Has anyone else’s email onslaught increased exponentially wfh? It’s as if the partners have extra control anxiety since they can’t physically see us and have multiplied their email send five-fold.

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I create folder in Outlook.

Transactional practice here. I also outlook folder like crazy (usually by client, with sub folder for matters) and drag things into it obsessively during the day. Even if I don’t have a chance to read, I skim sender/subject line and drag into the folder so that when I need to quickly catch up (partner calls asking “what is status of X”) I can sift more efficiently. I try to keep my inbox <100-200 emails or so (if not entirely zero’d out) except during big closings. I maintain a similar folder structure in a local folder (which gets backed up to a cloud drive) and if there are email attachments I know I’ll need (reports, signature pages etc) I drag into the local folder so I can scan that at a glance without having to go back to my emails. It definitely adds some processing time but ultimately ends up being more efficient I think (and less stressful when I need something quickly).

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