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I Tamed My Inbox to Be a Better Writer
I aspire to be a person who goes to sleep with zero unread emails every day.
It doesn’t always happen that way, because I’ll end up saving something as a to-do and then before you know it, that little red bubble on my phone says I’m slowly piling up emails again.
But I need these.
These are my Medium digests, with important information I need to be a better writer.
These are emails from workshops, coaches, and courses I’m in, with important information I need to be a better writer.
These are fourteen thousand emails from Shaunta Grimes.
These are business expense receipts, submission deadlines, and form submissions from my website.
These are, okay, that one is just a reminder that I need to skip this month’s MeUndies order.
Getting started
I set myself a timer and decided I wouldn’t check my phone or Facebook until the timer went off. Until then, it was just me and my inbox.
I powered through about 80 emails in 40 minutes and that little red notification bubble has (temporarily) gone back to hell where it came from.
To get started, I opened the following tabs in my browser:
