However, the majority of people I meet haven’t achieved this state of inbox control yet! If you’ve got hundreds, or thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands of emails in your inbox, it’s time for an Inbox spring clean! Why? Because opening your inbox every day to a huge email count is very likely causing you some level of frustration, anxiety and cognitive overload (even if you don’t realise it). If you’ve got your emails under control with an effective processing and tracking system in place, you’ll probably have only a small number of emails sitting in your inbox at any one time. Let me start by saying that not everyone needs to spring clean their inbox. Some things may look a little different if you are using another version of Outlook, but the general process will remain the same. Note: The steps and images shown in this post are for Outlook for Office 365 (Mac desktop version 16.30, November 2019).
In this third post, I’ll show you how to spring clean your inbox in Outlook for Mac (if you’re an Outlook for Windows user, check out this post). Spring is nearly over here in the Southern Hemisphere, so we’re wrapping up our series of posts on doing an Inbox spring clean.
