Managing your e-mail inbox can be discouraging, especially if you receive hundreds of messages a day. As messages build up, the task of reading and addressing each one may seem impossible. So perhaps ...

Many companies do most of their primary communication via e-mail, which can be a problem if you leave the office for a few days and fall behind. Coming back to an inbox with 300 messages can be a ...

I have four e-mails in my inbox right now, but I’m aiming for that number to be zero. Like many practitioners of the “Inbox Zero” system, I treat my inbox like a to-do list, with each e-mail ...

Recently I read about a proposal for eliminating e-mail. After all, e-mail consumes time, adds extra pressure to an already stressful workplace, fragments attention, and feels like a never-ending ...

For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...

My method: Scan the pile for urgent notes from bosses, sources, friends or family, attending to the most important first. Then I go through the rest quickly, starting from the bottom. I delete junk.

I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, searchable record. E-mail also makes me a little nuts. If I'm away from it for a couple of hours, messages ...