Managing your e-mail inbox can be discouraging, especially if you receive hundreds of messages a day. As messages build up, the task of reading and addressing each one may seem impossible. So perhaps ...

Recently I read about a proposal for eliminating e-mail. After all, e-mail consumes time, adds extra pressure to an already stressful workplace, fragments attention, and feels like a never-ending ...

Gmail Priority Inbox puts messages into three groups: important, starred and regular, with the important appearing at the top and the regular at the bottom of the stack. The new feature essentially ...

For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...

We are gathered here today to lay to rest Google Inbox. Google’s alternative email client was a radical rethink of how email should work, but as has been the case with many edge-case Google products, ...

A decade of court arguments has revealed a vast zone of mystery for most judges. They don’t know how documents actually get filed in their courthouses. That is because judges never have to worry about ...

Email inboxes are tricky tools, because they become hard to manage over time and you have to spend a lot of time searching for what you’re trying to find. And if you have been using one email address ...

My method: Scan the pile for urgent notes from bosses, sources, friends or family, attending to the most important first. Then I go through the rest quickly, starting from the bottom. I delete junk.

I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, searchable record. E-mail also makes me a little nuts. If I'm away from it for a couple of hours, messages ...