I love being a lawyer, but it is one of those professions that tends to fill up whatever available time that you have. It always seems like there is even more that can be done to help my clients. But we all need balance, and one way to find time for the important things in life outside of work is to be more efficient when it comes to tasks that are time sucks. Dealing with a large email inbox is definitely one of those tasks, and this is where Sanebox can be a huge help.
Although I use SaneBox with multiple email accounts, let me focus on just one of them today: my Gmail account. This is my primary personal email account, so I receive numerous emails from people on topics that are unrelated to my work. I have also been using that account for decades when shopping, and that means that it gets tons of marketing emails. These are not spam, becuase many of them are vendors that I use, and if it is time for me to buy an item, I want to take advantage of that email with this month’s coupon. And I also subscribe to some newsletters that go to that account. Before I started using SaneBox, I would sometimes look at my Gmail inbox and see such an overwhelming number of new messages that I didn’t even know where to start.
But thanks to SaneBox, those days are now over for me. My Inbox typically has fewer than 10 emails when I check it, making it easy and quick to see if there is something important there, and then I can get back to my life. This huge increase in efficiency is amazing.
From time to time, I’ll glance at my @SaneNews folder. That is where SaneBox files emails that are likely to be less urgent, things like newsletters and other emails sent to a large audience. I want to see many of these emails, just not all of the time. Thanks to the @SaneNews folder, I can view those emails only when I am ready for them.
I also occasionally look at my @SaneLater folder. Those are likely to be marketing emails that I don’t mind receiving because I occasionally will have an interest in looking at them, but I just don’t want them clogging up my inbox. When I open that @SaneLater folder, I immediately click the box at the top left of Gmail to select all items. If there are one or two that I want to read right now or in the future, I unclick the boxes next to those. Then I click the delete button and delete the rest. I couldn’t easily do that if these emails were in a single inbox along with the key messages that I want and the newsletters that I want to save. But since they are all in @SaneLater, I can deal with them quickly, all at once.
SaneBox does an excellent job of sorting these emails for me. However, if it ever makes a decision that you disagree with—such as placing something in @SaneLater that should be in @SaneNews or even in my main inbox—I just move that email to the folder where it belongs. That teaches SaneBox how to handle future emails from the same sender.
If you want to try out SaneBox to see what a huge difference it can make in your life, click here to get a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. If you don’t like having a clean and tidy Inbox and decide to return to how you had it before, no sweat. But if you appreciate having a better way of working with email, using this link in this post will give you a generous $25 credit for when you pick a plan—and there are lots of different plans offered so that you can choose the one that gives you just what you want.
Thanks to SaneBox for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. And a special thanks to SaneBox for giving me extra time in my life.