Email Organization: Logical

Logical: Neatly Filed Away

Does this sound like you? You are in constant control, chaos doesn’t even consider coming into your life, now if you could only figure out a way to systemize your inbox!

There are some wonderful ways to systemize your email inbox. You can even take it to the next level and organize your email folders in the same fashion as your paper files! This way you always know where to look, regardless of what application you are using.

Organize With Folders

Determine what folders make sense to you and your business and create folders for your inbox. These can be by client, project, action type, etc. Whatever makes the most sense to you and how you think. I would even recommend setting up your computer folders in the same logic as your inbox and paper files. Keep it consistent whenever possible.

Organize By Action

As soon as you have acted on an email, file it away immediately! Do not let it clog up your inbox needlessly.

To Do’s

For those emails that have an action associated with it create a folder strictly for To Do’s. Just make sure that you are NOT an “out of sight out of mind” thinker. For the Logical organizer it’s very important that your To Do’s are nicely filed away, they aren’t distracting and you control what you do and when.

A key component of being a Logical Organizer is control. If you must have order and control you are more than likely a Logical organizer.