One life-changing system for taming your inbox

📥 Today’s tip: Use 3 different email addresses.

To quote New York Times’ “Smarter Living” writer and editor, Tim Herrera: “The heaviest substance known to humans is the psychic weight of all the emails you haven’t responded to.” Truly, is there any greater day-to-day stressor than the ever-extending distance to Inbox Zero? Email, the great hamster wheel of guilt.

One of the cleverest ways to keep on top of your email is also, perhaps, the most straightforward: Set up three separate inboxes. As Maggie Chirdo explains in Forge, this means distinct email addresses for “serious” correspondences (like anything work-related); for personal exchanges (say, your college friend-group’s email thread); and for junk email (because no 15% discount code is ever really free).

“Much like the delightful power of always keeping three beverages on your desk,” Chirdo writes, “allowing yourself this trio of purposeful inboxes is an act of self-care.”

🖥️ More from Forge on emailing better:

The Correct Way to Email
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How I Cut Down My Email Time by 90%
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Get to Inbox Zero, Even If You’re Terrible at Email
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