Plan an email triage routine
Plans a daily email routine with fixed check times, a four-way sort rule, folders or labels and a two-minute rule.
Task:
Plan a daily email routine that gets my inbox to zero or close to it without email running my day.
Context:
I get about [emails per day] emails a day in [email app]. My job is [your job]. The emails that matter most come from [important senders]. Right now I [current email habit].
Rules:
- Set no more than three fixed check times and give each a maximum duration in minutes.
- Give a sort rule with four outcomes for any email, such as do, delegate, schedule or delete, and a two-minute rule.
- Suggest at most six folders or labels and one filter rule I can set up today.
- Include what to do on a day when the inbox is overwhelming.
Result:
A short plan in three parts: the daily schedule, the sorting rules and the setup steps, each as a numbered list of at most five items.