Email has for many become the curse of today’s paperless office. They pile up faster than you can process them. The fact that many emails are impossible to understand, or completely pointless, doesn’t help.

This post lists five principles that will help you write more effective emails that benefit both you and the reader.

Paired with effective filtering and inbox management you stand a much better chance of persevering on the email battlefield.

As I begun my new job, I moved to Gmail from Outlook. I also upped my daily email barrage.

Zero Inbox suddenly became very relevant again.

Setting up Gmail, I hade these three goals in mind:

1. Keep the inbox to zero while still using it as a dashboard for things to keep track of.
2. The ability to send emails to myself as reminders (imho, better than using a secondary todo application).
3. Make processing information as easy as possible

And this is the prize we’re after: