Reclaiming Email
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You’ve tried email bankruptcy. You know all about filing. But sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did you fall back into email overload... again?
First things first: It’s not just you. It’s common to live with some sort of anxiety around email and email overload. Where we’re going to focus today is not on some magical list of things you’re supposedly doing wrong, rather we’re gong to ask some questions about the relationship you want to have with your inbox, about how you might be able to focus on simplicity instead of strict organization, and how a few quick keyboard shortcuts and a learning mindset might make all the difference in your approach to electronic mail.
Melissa is our community manager in The ADHD Group. If you’d like to get to know more about her, become a supporter over on Patreon and you’ll have access to her annual members-only series on email management and the Discord ADHD Community!
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- (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
- (02:14) - Support the show: Become a Patron!
- (03:53) - Group Coaching Update
- (06:15) - Study Halls with Nikki!
- (07:42) - Reclaiming Email
- (17:47) - Reclaiming Email: How did you get here?
- (22:45) - Thinking about what you want your inbox to do for you
- (24:18) - Workflow Simplicity
- (28:33) - Learning new skills to support your email relationship
- (39:40) - A brief aside on filters and automation
- (41:23) - Hey.com
- (45:57) - Search
- (50:54) - Archive, Delete, Folders, Lables, All Mail
- (58:30) - Special Folder: Gmail Trash
- (59:30) - Does "Archiving" email compress your email?