Are New Year’s Resolutions made to be broken? A study found that about 35% of people break their resolutions before the end of January. Are you guilty of this?
If you’re already broken a resolution, don’t despair. Now’s the time to start fresh! This week is Clean out your Inbox Week. So if you had a resolution to get organized, clean up your junk, or get to inbox zero, then today’s the day to start!
In honor of Clean out your Inbox Week, we found this article on Life hacker that gives instructions on how to archive your old mail (in Gmail) and have a tidy inbox—in a flash!
It’s simple: select all and hit “archive.” This will clean up your inbox, but keep those messages accessible via the search function in Gmail. That’s right—you’re not losing any info!
Lifehacker also provides tips for keeping that inbox tidy:
- Get Rid of Newsletters and Ads You Don’t Want You can get rid of it quickly by doing a quick search for the word “unsubscribe” and creating a filter that automatically deletes emails with that word in it.
- Create a Whitelist Filter All you need to do is create a filter that is designed to ignore important messages and leave them in the inbox, but move everything else into a secondary folder (or label, if you’re a Gmail user).
With a clean and tidy inbox, you’ll feel less stressed and be more productive. Up next? Working on those memory skills.
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