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.

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