Start 2009 With An Empty Inbox!
Matt Cutts (who works for the Search Quality group in Google) has a great idea for starting the New Year.
Start with a fresh and empty inbox in your Gmail.
There’s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year.
But Matt,” you say, “my inbox is my to-do list!” So here’s how to do it without losing that to-do list. Add a label like “oldinbox” to everything currently in your inbox and then archive all the email in your inbox.
Presto! Your inbox is clean and empty, but you can still visit the “oldinbox” label when you’re ready to whittle down those older emails. I know it sounds scary, but there’s only two simple steps, and both can be undone.
Step 1:
Add a label to all the email in your inbox. Click on “Inbox” at the top left of your Gmail. Then look for “Select: All” and click on the “All” link.If your inbox is bigger than one screenful, you’ll see a message like “All 25 conversations on this page are selected. Select all 665 conversations in Inbox.” Click on the second sentence of that message to select everything in your inbox. Now click on the “More Actions” button and select “New label…”. You’ll be prompted for a label name, so enter something like oldinbox as the label name and click OK. Gmail will ask if you’re sure you want to apply this label to all the selected emails, so say yes by clicking that OK button.
Congrats! Everything in your inbox now has the label “oldinbox”. Now we just need to archive every email with that label.
Step 2:
Archive all your email with that label. Look for the “Labels” box on the left-hand side of the screen, and click on “oldinbox” (or whatever label name you gave). Click Select: All. Do the trick to select all conversations if you need to. Then just click the “Archive” button. That’s it.Your inbox is now empty, but you can get to those older emails if you need to by clicking “oldinbox” in the Labels box.
Can you undo these changes? Yes! Read more.
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dev on January 6th, 2009 11:57 am
Nice..i’ll do that soon..thanks..
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Miles Technologies on January 6th, 2009 2:12 pm
Great post! When your inbox is too full, important messages slip through the cracks while old emails are unnecessarily re-read. As a result, productivity can suffer.
cassy on January 8th, 2009 7:37 am
oh! thanks for this information, coz my email inbox are already full,i have lots of unread messages on my inbox coz im tired to read all of it,but now this post gives me an idea on what to do with my unread messages, i will start to select some important message then trash the non important to clean my inbox! thanks for this rich!
Terri Seymour on January 8th, 2009 12:46 pm
I have always had a problem keeping my inbox emptied. I feel that if the emails are not right there in front of me, I will not take care of them.
Your tips sound like they actually might work. Thanks much!
Jaclyn on January 8th, 2009 4:20 pm
It is a great idea to start the new year with a clean email inbox, however…this is much easier said then done. most of us don’t have all the extra time to go through every single email out of 40 or so to make sure it’s nothing vitally important. ya know….most people scan through and delete the one’s they know arn’t important and plan to come back to the one’s that may have some importance at a later date…however…the emails just keep piling up. it’s a never ending battle in the email world.
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