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Email Triage Flowchart

A flowchart that sorts email into act, reply-later, archive, delete.

How to use it

  1. Open inbox once, not all day.
  2. Act (under 2 min), schedule reply, archive, or delete.
  3. Empty the inbox as the goal, not “zero unread forever”.

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Email Triage Flowchart

A flowchart that sorts email into act, reply-later, archive, delete

  1. 1Open inbox once, not all day.
  2. 2Act (under 2 min), schedule reply, archive, or delete.
  3. 3Empty the inbox as the goal, not “zero unread forever”.

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