Audrey Gelman: “My assistant Penelope is in my inbox all day. We have a very elaborate color-coding system for my inbox with over 60 categories of emails”
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Some say there are two types of people in the world: the ones who manage to reach the nirvana that is “inbox zero,” and everybody else. Below, 25 famous women from Marie Kondo to Kim Kardashian, discuss their strategies, productivity hacks, and general approach to the onslaught of emails that they receive every day, whether it’s color-coding each item or refusing to delete a single thing.
Penelope and I created these categories in order to triage and organize all the emails I get in a day. The colors make it easy to go back and find information in my inbox. I know it might sound crazy, but it’s the best way I’ve figured out how to get people answers and responses most efficiently, and not bottleneck information or decisions in my inbox. The system also helps me spend less time on email during the day.
I have my personal email on my phone, so my assistants forward an email to me if it’s important. I used to get about 700 to 800 emails a day. Yesterday I had three. Today, I’ve had none and it’s the middle of the day. You know what it’s like? It’s like returning to the days when I had 1,000 people working for me at the Corcoran Group, and I actually had a secretary who would vet what came across. With email, the whole world comes across at you, and it’s terrible. I don’t know why it took me so long to see the enemy as clearly as I did.” — The Cut, April 2018“I always try to get through my emails at night, because I don’t like to be that person who’s constantly tapping away at their phone during the day.
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