1. Create a label \/ folder to organize all important email<\/strong>. If you are on Gmail, you can create a label (called TO-DO for example) and the create a filter to label all the important messages as TO-DO. Here are the Gmail filter settings to get this done:<\/p>\n For MS Outlook, you can create a folder and file any email sent with high importance in the \u201cQuick, the house is burning down\u201d folder (for more MS Outlook tips refer to this post on getting organized with customized Microsoft Outlook rules<\/a><\/p>\n 2. Automatically star all the important email or flag it for follow-up<\/strong>. If you are using Gmail, it has a handy option to automatically star all mail that conforms to your search setting:<\/p>\n 3. Set up an SMS alert of new urgent email<\/strong>. This one is an awesome tip, yet not widely known. Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be found here<\/a>. All you need is to create a filter to forward all your mail with the set criteria to your personal email, e.g. [your 10-digit phone number here]@message.alltel.com<\/p>\n 4. Filter out unimportant mail.<\/strong> Really, this needs to be #1. In order not to miss urgent mail, you will need to get rid of all clutter: social media updates, automatic updates, etc – everything you still read (so no way to unsubscribe) but don’t really need in your inbox. Create a filter and add \u201cSkip the inbox\u201d, \u201cMark as read\u201d, and \u201cApply a label\u201d (I have SOCIAL label foe all that stuff):<\/p>\n 5. Send an auto response containing other ways to get into contact with you urgently<\/strong> (including cell phone, IMs, etc). (For Gmail users) Use this post as guidelines<\/a>: they did an awesome job explaining the process, so no reason to explain it again.<\/p>\n The guest post is by Ann Smarty, a search and social media blogger. If you love guest blogging as much as Ann, join MyBlogGuest.com<\/strong>, the community of guest bloggers<\/a> to promote your site and brand. Want to guest post for us? Read our Guest Post guidelines<\/a> to find out how you can submit guest posts to us.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We receive tons of email daily which makes it really hard to make sense of those clutter. It is so easy to miss an important note or get to it when it is too late. The following tips will help you better manage your important email for you to always be able to handle it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Filter](\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/5SmartestTipstoHandleImportantMail_A942\/filter_email_messages.jpg\" "\\"Filter")
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