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I’m a big advocate of using folders for sorting email.  Gmail makes this simple by giving you a great trick so that you don’t have to sort through a full inbox daily.  Here’s how it works.

Set up folders for things like newsletters, passwords, receipts, and whatever else you get regular email from.  Now, set up a “filter” in gmail by including the name of the company, or the name that the email normally comes from.  Set these up to automatically skip the inbox, and go directly to the folder that you’ve created for them.

Filters can be a great way to limit the time you spend checking email, all while organizing and sorting things you may need later.

Another trick with gmail that I use is separate email addresses.  In gmail, if your email address is abc123@gmail.com - you can use any variation of that name with periods as well.  So, abc.123@gmail.com is exactly the same email address as the original.

How can this help you?  Start using your email address with the period in separate locations for different tasks.  For example, family can be your regular email address.  Bills can be a.bc123@gmail.com.  Newsletters can be ab.c123@gmail.com and so on.  You can also set up filters this way so that it sorts your email and puts them in the above mentioned folders.  Give it a try!

The most important meal of the day without a doubt has to be breakfast. Doctors have been claiming this for years, and I for one am a firm believer.

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