When you’re staring at an inbox piled high with unread emails, it’s easy for email to feel like yet another problem for you to solve. But by using your email’s rules and filters, you can not only prevent those messages from piling it up, but address challenges you face that go beyond your inbox.
A mail rule scans your incoming email for specific messages (for example, from a certain person, or containing a specific set of keywords) and handles those messages in a way you’ve predefined: by filing them in a particular folder so you can look at them when they are relevant.
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To read the original article: Seven Problems Your Inbox Can Solve - Alexandra Samuel - Harvard Business Review
