Our family has been struggling with the late winter colds and flu over the past week. To be honest, it has me feeling run down. So I decided that I am going to sit on the couch with my laptop, pop in a movie, and work on cleaning up my email Inbox.

If you are like me, you have an email Inbox full of items that you either planned to respond to or thought you may use in a blog post or share with a friend. My plan is to add an "In Progress" folder for any items that I want to deal with but cannot take care of immediately. Then I will clean out this folder one day each week. If I haven't dealt with it within one week then it isn't as important as I originally thought it was.

All other emails will either be forwarded to the appropriate individual or deleted after reading.

Another thing that I have done is set up a Google Gmail account. The way Google has set up the Inbox all messages within a thread are included in one line of the Inbox. These cuts down on the number of messages in the Inbox and keeps all of the posts within one thread together for easy access. The negative about Gmail is that there is not a good storage program set up for emails that you may want to keep. There is a flagging system, but no sub-folders.

Please reply to this post with your best suggestions to keep your email Inbox organized and current. I look forward to hearing from you!

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