Managing Email

We have gathered some useful and compelling resources for you in your efforts to better manage the increasing deluge of daily emails.

Remember to approach email with intentionality: what do you want? (Well, it's unlikely you will receive fewer emails, but what else?)

Helen and I definitely don't consider ourselves experts in this area of organizational management magic, but these are some resources that we have found immensely helpful.  Please use the comments to tell us what you like about these resources and what would help you continue to feel supported in the area of managing email. Thanks for engaging.


Video of Bruce Reeves, ITSS Interim Manager, discussing how he manages email.

"Managing Email with Gmail" training video.  Here are the basics.

6 Tips for Managing your Gmail, and Retaining your Sanity
by Gina Mariko Rosales, blogger from the Art of Hustle blog and Leadership Recruiting Coordinator at Google.

For perspective, Gina is also a dancer and "a self-proclaimed efficiency nerd." Going beyond the basics, these tips include archiving and filtering, but also how to set up multiple inboxes and search your emails effectively.


Last, but not least, remember that our email at UMD is in fact Gmail; this means it is a Google product and Google has devoted many useful pages to all the different facets you might be interested in using in your email interface.  All you have to do is Google search as you would for other purposes.  I recently searched "how to use tasks in Gmail" and got to this very useful page. Just using the "tasks" function has already shortened and made my Inbox more productive.  Just one example.

Share your examples of what you have tried in the comments below.