Chances are you've made it here because you've gone through the previous two exercises around how to organize your inbox. Now I'm going to share with you a few quick, down and dirty tips & tricks to get you on course to a cleaner email inbox.

By now you've heard a lot about understanding the basic email types, or segments, and you've learned more about why it's important to create labels by type of material, instead of specifics that may become obsolete. Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and actually set up your virtual filing cabinet. This only takes a little bit of up front leg work on your part, and then the rest is up to the Gmail powers that be.

Today we're going to set up your virtual filing cabinet with labels and filters. We'll be learning about labels, how to use them to your advantage, and then what to do with them. Filters will be your magic wand in this next trick!

Setting up virtual email folders is not really an option anymore these days. It's almost exactly the same way as setting up a filing cabinet, but with a few recommended cautions. Here are some easy ways to set up email folders that we'll use in our next lesson to automate your inbox organization.

We're all bombarded with ever growing email inboxes. It happens to all of us, even those of us who feel we've got every facet of our lives organized {hint: nobody's perfect}. But understanding how emails are segmented can help manage the incoming barrage on a daily basis. 

Today we're talking about how to organize your inbox in less than 10 minutes. But first, we must segment and file emails so that your days of "how am I gonna weed through 894 emails, ugh!" are long gone!