- Who it’s for
- Employees and sole operators
- Software
- Outlook or Gmail
- Setup
- 20 to 30 minutes
- Gives back
- 45 to 120 minutes of searching, every week
Step-by-step walkthrough
- List your top ten clients by volume of correspondence
- Create a folder or label per client: flat, not nested. Nesting is why people stop filing
- Build a rule per client matching on the domain of their email address, not individual senders. People leave; domains persist
Get the rest of the steps and the one-page PDF
Steps 4 and 5, what to watch for, and a one-page PDF to keep.
Where the recovered time should go
Not into doing more of the same. That is the whole argument — the hour you get back isn’t a cost you’ve cut, it’s a return you can finally collect. Put it on a client, on the person you have been meaning to train, or on the work that has been good enough for two years.