• Make your inbox cleaner (and give yourself less work) by unsubscribing from any newsletters you don’t read regularly.
• If you have a mailbox limit, learn about your archiving options so you don’t have to invest time in cleaning up old emails.
• Follow the same guidelines when checking email from your smartphone – except the two-minute rule becomes the 20-second rule.

Set your ‘Do This Week’ folder to display the number of emails inside (see ‘Add the action folders’ in Chapter 5), but not any of your other folders (which would become too distracting).