This folder is sorted by category so that the email I need to act on urgently are on the top. These are then categorized: the ones that are urgent that I need to follow up on right away, the ones I need to action, and then email I need to follow up on but I’m waiting for input from someone else and finally email that I have scheduled time in my calendar to follow up on. The “Action” folder contains emails that I need to act on.

Instead of having a full tree structure with different folders to organize my email I just have three folders “Action”, “Read” and “Archive”. Let me show you how I manage my email today using Outlook 2013. It was very time consuming to manage and extremely inefficient. I had an enormous folder structure with multiple levels, where I would manually organize my email. A common situationĪbout ten years ago, before Outlook was as powerful as it is today, I used to organize my email into multiple folders.

In this video, you will learn how to set up a system in Outlook 2013 to quickly process and prioritize email.

If you keep everything in your inbox you will quickly lose track of what needs to be done. To quickly get through your inbox and to get a good overview of what you need to act on, in what order, I recommend that you set up a system for managing your email.

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