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"Email is interesting, because most people wish email were a queue, and many people try to turn email into a queue using a number of tools and practices, but, in its standard implementation, email behaves much more like a stack. (Some people joke that “email is your to-do list, but made by other people.”)"

Well said!

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I rely heavily on the "snooze" feature for email. I try to keep my inbox completely clear, and if something comes in that I can't deal with immediately, I snooze it for when I have time or it becomes relevant. I basically see emails as tasks, and they are completed (archived) when I've both performed the required action (maybe just read it, or sometimes also do something else) and responded if necessary. They can also act as reminders, such as maybe I have a meeting in a month, so I'll snooze it until a week before the meeting. This way I never miss any emails and respond in a timely manner to urgent ones. Snooze acts pretty much as a (sorted) queue.

A trick I learned which helped significantly was to sort "oldest" to the top.

A trick I learned was to not live out of email. It’s been an evolution, not without its pain, but I’ve remained.

Now Slack I’m the other hand... there is somewhat of an expectation to be regularly available.

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