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I currently work as a PM in a big company. Yesterday I've got slightly over 200 emails; it is a typical day.

Granted, some of those were CC:, and people like to have one-line replies, but I still have to read each one nevertheless just to make sure it is not something I need urgently respond to.

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Any time you get an e-mail you didn't need to read, ask yourself "how do I stop these from coming?". More likely than not there is an answer.

You can easily cut your volume by a factor of 10x.

Set up a filter, and dump all the CC ones into a semi-spam folder. If it's important, you should be a "To". If it's not...

When I just started, I quickly setup some filters to categorize all mail into three categories: those where I would be one of the few people in To, or those from my boss, or those that are High Priority would go into first category, most others will be in second and mail group etc. will go into third.

The problem with the system is that people who send you email are not aware of it :), and very often violate those rules. Apart from some form of AI gradually adjusting rules over the time, I'm not sure what would be a good solution.

Or just turn on Priority Inbox in Gmail.

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