At work, I use the Inbox Zero strategy combined with Gmail's keyboard shortcuts. It's really powerful, a total game changer. The nicest thing for me is that I can easily keep track of not just stuff that I have to react to, but email threads where I am the one waiting for a reply. You can read about it in many places, there are tons of tutorials (both written and video) out there. As far as I know, it's the way most Google employees are using Gmail too.
What is causing it to be overwhelming? I use a zero-inbox policy. If it can be answered in 2 minutes I do it then. Otherwise I create a TODO an archive the email. All newsletters go to a particular label and skip the inbox.
At work, I use the Inbox Zero strategy combined with Gmail's keyboard shortcuts. It's really powerful, a total game changer. The nicest thing for me is that I can easily keep track of not just stuff that I have to react to, but email threads where I am the one waiting for a reply. You can read about it in many places, there are tons of tutorials (both written and video) out there. As far as I know, it's the way most Google employees are using Gmail too.
Aggressive un-subscribing and tagging as junk.
GMail filters for the rest.
Clearing my inbox every day by either replying, archiving, deleting, or transferring to a reminder, calendar event, issue, note, etc.
What is causing it to be overwhelming? I use a zero-inbox policy. If it can be answered in 2 minutes I do it then. Otherwise I create a TODO an archive the email. All newsletters go to a particular label and skip the inbox.
https://notmuchmail.org/
Sieve filters. the Filters from exchange are shit. Sieve is more powerful and