工作上接到过多电子邮件该怎么办

More than 12 trillion emails will be sent by the end of this year. That is an astonishing number for a communications tool that is only about 25 years old. Today email has partially replaced faxes and phone calls as the key way of communicating.

But what should you do when you receive too many emails and how do you ensure that you don't get too many in the future?

Try to filter spam. Reading or deleting spam takes time - time that could be used doing something else. Spam is any unwanted email that is not addressed to you specifically.

Sort your emails in different folders depending on their content: for example, use different email addresses for different roles. Consider using one address for your private mails, one for work-related stuff, an another for your hobbies or sports activities.

Archive or save everything important because you will have to get something from your archives at some point. I wish I had always done that……

Try to keep up-to-date with your private emails, because if you don't, you will never have time to spend on old emails later. From my personal experience, either I reply to an email within a week or I won't deal with it before months……

Prioritize email quickly. Reply immediately to the highest priority email, within 24 hours to less-urgent ones and within a week to all others.

到今年底大家传出的电子邮箱即将超出12万亿封。针对一个仅有25年时间的通讯专用工具而言，它是个令人震惊的数据。如今电子邮箱早已一部分地替代了发传真与电話做为关键通信方式的影响力。

但是如果你接到太多的电子邮箱（下称电子邮件）应该怎么办？并且，你怎么确保之后不容易接到太多的电子邮件？

依照电子邮件的內容将他们分类到不一样的文件夹名称里。比如：不一样的人物角色应用不一样的邮箱地址。考虑到一个详细地址用以你的个人信函；一个详细地址用以与工作中有关的物品；另一个详细地址用以你的兴趣爱好或户外活动。

试着过虑垃圾短信。阅读文章或删掉垃圾短信*须時间——你能用这种時间来做其他的事儿。垃圾短信是这些不火爆的、并不是专业发至你的详细地址的电子邮件。

将关键的物品归档或储存出来，由于有时你需要从你的档案资料里获得一些物品。只愿我之前一直那么做……

试着与电子邮件维持同歩，由于假如你没那么做，之后你也就始终没有时间花在旧电子邮件上。从我的个人成长经历而言，我要不在一周内回复邮件，要不数月以后才去解决它。

快速对电子邮件开展优先选择排列。立刻回应最重要的电子邮件，对这些不那麼着急的电子邮件在24小时内回应，而全部其他的电子邮件在一周以内回应。