The 3 Email Commandments will help you get through your inbox and on with your life. By following the commandments you will be able to process your email faster and more efficiently, which will allow you to focus on other, more important activities.

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The 3 Email
Commandments

2. Commandment #1
Stop playing Tetris

3. Email is like Tetris. No matter how fast
you are, there’s always more coming,
and faster. An average person today
gets 110 emails/day.

4. By 2015 it will be 125/day
(a 14% increase)
2014
2015
110 email/day
125 email/day

5. Since days in 2015 will still only be 24 hours
long, something has to change, you.
You need to change the way you think
about email, and the way you process it.

6. Commandment #2
Don’t let email be your no.1
priority

7. Be proactive and focus on your own to-do list.
Email is your to-do list that
other people can write on.

8. Scan your Inbox for
urgent/important items in the
morning, and then work on your
top priorities.
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9. Dedicate blocks of time to processing email, and treat
email processing as one of your priorities
Not the default
Priority #1!

10. If you’re ever sucked into “doing email”, ask
yourself if clearing your Inbox really the best
use of time right now!
Eventually it will be - but make a conscious
decision about it.

11. Commandment #3
Not all emails are created
equal

12. Every email interface gives the
same amount of real estate on
the screen to each message.
This tricks our subconscious into
thinking every email is equally
important.
Boss
Lottery/ offer
Payment
Confirmation

13. But that’s wrong - some emails need to be
dealt with right away (urgent/important).
Some can wait (non-urgent/important).
And others should be archived/deleted in
bulk (unimportant).

14. According to our data the unimportant
bucket contains, on average, 58% of
emails.

15. - SaneBox filters out the unimportant
emails into the SaneLater folder so
you can archive or delete them all at
once.
- You can move the non-
urgent/important emails into one of our
Snooze folders
Lottery /offer
SaneLater
Here’s how SaneBox helps you:

16. Now your email only contains emails
that you need to deal with today.
And if you don’t get to all of them, it’s ok - just
snooze them till tomorrow!

17. Learn more at:
www.sanebox.com
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