now that you understand the dangers of losing control of your digital life, it's time for you to regain control. Let's get started with one of our biggest time suckers, energy wasters and digital noise sources, your inbox Yes, it is time to tame the email beast. We all know that email can be a giant waste of time, but if you were to actually track how much time you spent replying and writing emails, starring sorting and procrastinating, You'd probably be shocked. McKinsey's Global Institute conducted a study on productivity in 2012 and found that workers are spending an average of 28% of their work week reading and answering email. That's nearly 1/3 of their time. Email can be an effective communication tool, but all too often people use email for brainstorming, decision making or other functions that are best done on another platform on the phone or in person. Too many people have become their own bureaucrats spending hours a day reading and replying to messages. Our solution is simpl...

e quiet your inbox, Jonathan and I are both adamant about best practice inbox management. We've tried it all inbox zero, get things done and tons of new third party plug ins that promised more effective inbox management. But we found that for most people, none of these sustainably get to the root of the problem, which is that email has essentially become a digital dumpster and that's why in this course we're going to teach you a system that actually works and more importantly, actually works for you. Our four step inbox freedom approach helps you sustainably manage your inbox, it goes like this. Step one Ideal State, we want to transform our inbox into an actionable task list rather than an assorted junk box step to declutter. We're going to consolidate and clean up all of your existing email accounts and reduce the flow of incoming communications. Step three Systematize will set up a new system that simplifies how you process and action your emails And step four implement. You'll put that system to work refining and customizing it to suit your needs in the upcoming lessons. We'll walk you through exactly how to use this approach to achieve inbox freedom. By the time you're done, your email will have gone from this to this, a clear and straightforward action list. Now that we know what we're aiming for. Let's start decluttering first. We'll want to consolidate and clean up your accounts before we take a dive into the old email dumpster, we need to have a clear picture of two things. How many accounts you currently have and what you use them for. Let's begin by putting together a list of all of your existing and legacy email accounts for most people. This looks something like this. Number one personal email accounts, a personal account you use on a daily basis. Usually gmail outlook. Yahoo et cetera. Number two work or professional email accounts and account you used primarily for work purposes may be linked to an employer server. Number three. Legacy email accounts. Any super old accounts you no longer use regularly often with fun embarrassing names like too cool for school at AOL dot com And number four spam email accounts. These are accounts you use just for receiving newsletters, advertising promos, etcetera. Please pause this video and take a few minutes to list out all of your email addresses, including the passwords to those accounts. If you have forgotten a password and need to reset it, go ahead and do that now for extra credit kicks and giggles. You can also note the total number of emails in each of those accounts. That way you can see how far you've come by the end of this process. Make sure you've got them all. Even that hotmail account you haven't touched in 11 years. This step may seem minor but we promise that it's the key to cleaning up your digital footprint. You're going to want this list easily accessible so that we can swiftly handle all of your accounts. And don't worry right now about the security of jotting down your passwords. You can and probably will reset them all later. But right now we want to be able to quickly log into all of your accounts without getting bogged down one more thing. Take a look at this list and see if there are any email accounts that you already know. You can completely delete if you haven't touched the account in over two years. It probably can go if there are only a few emails here are there that you need to keep. Just forward them to your primary personal or work email address. And then you can delete the entire account. Doesn't that feel good? We're only getting started.

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joe culver

This class is well organized and flows well. There is one thing I do NOT like is the reference to another class in the Syllabus: "Kill The Chaos of Information Overload with Evernote Webinar" The webinar has only one good tip, use Tabs in Evernote. The webinar hypes more tips if you buy the course by Charles Bird. I bought the course for $197 which was listed as a discount from a much higher price. The course is poorly assembled, out of date, and hardly worth more than a few dollars. It assembled with a bunch of short videos, each video starts after he is talking and ends before he is finished. Evernote Scanner is no longer made and Evernote no longer supports the software.

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15. Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

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Course Structure How To Succeed

What is Digital Overwhelm

Why Does It Actually Matter

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

Quiz - Chapter 1

The Importance of Robust Systems

The Power of “The Cloud”

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

What To Do When “Life Happens”

Quiz - Chapter 2