Sometimes trying to read your email feels like you're trying to take a drink from a firehose, there's a huge amount of email. It's constantly coming in hitting your inbox, and you're just overwhelmed. So here are some methods to reduce email coming into your inbox. So we've already showed you techniques for dealing with the email once it's in your inbox. Now we're going to help you stop that email before it ever even reaches your inbox. The first tip is to unsubscribe wherever possible.
So search your inbox for the phrase unsubscribe, type that in search and you'll find every email that you could possibly unsubscribe from Have a look at them, you know, sort them in order so you only have to unsubscribe from each one and then go ahead and unsubscribe from them. So if it's an email newsletter, you no longer need emails you're getting that you something you signed up for ages ago, a tool you don't use Use anymore, just hit the unsubscribe button, it will really help over time. If it is information you want, consider accessing the information. Instead of by email, consider accessing it by RSS. This is a system that I use to create my own daily newspaper or magazine. This is a service called feedly@feedly.com.
And with Feedly, I can add almost any website to a daily magazine I read, I just scan the articles for ones I want to read and then click on them. So imagine if you had a newspaper delivered every day that only had articles that were of interest to you. I love that that's fantastic. I don't need to read a book. Let me just murder in a city. You know, cross across the water for me doesn't really affect me.
Instead, I want articles about my hobbies, about my interest about my businesses, you know those kinds of things. So I regularly subscribe to those kinds of things. And it makes Really easy to follow and unsubscribe and only see what I want. So here's a flowchart of how this would work. So first off, the first thing to look at is Kagan email and it comes into your inbox. Do you need this information?
If no, unsubscribe, it's gone, you know, you never need it again. If you do need the information, then check and see if it has an RSS feed. If you're not sure, don't worry, just add it to Feedly Feedly will automatically add it if it found an RSS feed. If not, then you'll know so that has an RSS feed, then go ahead and add it to Feedly. And you're done. And then you just unsubscribes you never get it again, if it is needed, but there is no RSS feed, set your email filter, we'll talk a little bit more about email filters in a few minutes to filter it to a service like OneNote.
So I use Microsoft OneNote for web clipping for all the articles in the web that I want to keep. I just filter it there and then again, you go ahead and you unsubscribe So you should really have not that many emails coming in. And the few that come in should be going directly into the reading folder, but try to get rid of as many of them as as many as possible and let's move on to the next tip.