In her recent post on Thoughts on Translation, Corinne McKay shares her strategy for coping with email overload:

First, logistics: If “checking e-mail” means that you’re deleting 90% of what’s in your inbox, you need to do some unsubscribing and filtering. This was step #1 of my pre-trip e-mail plan. Whenever I checked my e-mail during the month before we left, I took a look at each message and tried to assign it to one of three categories:

1. I want/need to read this as soon as it comes in (messages from clients and colleagues)
2. I want/need to read this at some point, but it’s not urgent (groups, some e-mail newsletters)
3. I don’t want/need to read this at all

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See: Thoughts on Translation