you should now have a list of all of your email accounts and their passwords. The next thing we're going to do is start decluttering your old email accounts. We're going to begin to clean up each of your accounts by removing auto filters and then using the archive function. These two functions will help us quickly and efficiently begin to handle your inbox situation in recent years. Male platforms like gmail have been deploying automated filters. Don't worry. We are going to add in new filters and automation later but first we want to remove the one size fits all filters that pre filter your email. This makes it possible for us to see and handle all of your outstanding emails. This will give you back control of your inbox instead of having your email provider auto read and sort emails for you for some of you who previously had this priority inbox selection. This is where things can look like they get a little bit tricky because you will no longer have three panels in your inbox and ins...

tead all of your emails will be lumped together into one pain. So let's begin by opening up your most frequently used email account. If you're using Gmail, remove any existing auto folder setup by opening up settings. Inbox inbox type, change your inbox type to default and save the new settings. Also check that all category labels under settings labels categories have been selected to hide so that they are not visible on the left menu. Now when you refresh your inbox, you should have all of your emails visible in one panel. Next up, let's leverage the archive feature after all. In my experience one of the biggest areas of confusion and therefore clutter is caused by the fact that people don't understand how archive works or how it's different from delete. So how does archive work when you send an email to archive, it is not deleted. In fact, your archive is essentially a searchable email depository search has become so advanced that we can now virtually find anything we need just by searching for it. Archive lets you search your entire email database without having any of those old emails clogging up your inbox. This makes archive an excellent way to clean up your inbox without deleting the emails. This means that when you send an email to archive, it still exists on your email server but will no longer appear in your inbox. Also archived emails will still be active when it comes to responses when you archive a message, but someone responds to it, the reply message comes back to your inbox, you might still be wondering why don't we just delete all of our old emails. Wouldn't that just be easiest? Well you can, especially when it comes to all of those pages and pages of spam emails, but we've learned that most people tend to get caught up in the deletion process and never finish. Instead spending hours and hours reading and unnecessarily sorting through old emails, the fear that an email will be forever lost ends up getting in the way of actually cleaning it out. We have found that for most people, archive is the most effective way to clean out your old email inboxes while still ensuring that you have access to emails you may one day need. In fact, in 2011, IBM conducted a study which found that finding old emails via email search was more efficient than digging around in a folder system. So in the rare chance that six years from now, you will need that one insurance policy form. You'll be able to find it in your email archive just by searching for your insurance providers name or email address. Voila email magic. Now that you understand the power of the archive feature, we hope that you'll feel little to no anxiety or attachment to the millions of emails in your inbox. And that's a good thing because in the next lecture, we are going to take a machete to them and cut down the clutter in broad strokes

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joe culver

This class is well organized and flows well. There is one thing I do NOT like is the reference to another class in the Syllabus: "Kill The Chaos of Information Overload with Evernote Webinar" The webinar has only one good tip, use Tabs in Evernote. The webinar hypes more tips if you buy the course by Charles Bird. I bought the course for $197 which was listed as a discount from a much higher price. The course is poorly assembled, out of date, and hardly worth more than a few dollars. It assembled with a bunch of short videos, each video starts after he is talking and ends before he is finished. Evernote Scanner is no longer made and Evernote no longer supports the software.

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Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

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16. Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

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Course Structure How To Succeed

What is Digital Overwhelm

Why Does It Actually Matter

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

Quiz - Chapter 1

The Importance of Robust Systems

The Power of “The Cloud”

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

What To Do When “Life Happens”

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Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts