Product Design
Five Habits for a Calmer Inbox
1. Check at set times
Pick two or three moments in the day to go through your messages. The rest of the time, let them wait.
2. Start with what matters
Open the important messages first. Promotions and newsletters can wait until you have a quiet moment.
3. Answer or snooze
If a message takes less than two minutes, answer it now. If not, snooze it to the moment you’ll actually deal with it.
4. Keep one place per person
Instead of searching five apps, keep everything from each person together. Lumibox does this for you automatically.
5. Unsubscribe once a week
Spend five minutes each week leaving the lists you never read. Your future self will thank you.