10 Ways to Boost Your E-mail Productivity

E-mail is an unparalleled productivity tool, but it can actually become a burden if not managed properly. Lifehacker offers 10 ways to improve your productivity when working with e-mail, including:

Mark/prioritize messages sent only to you If you're inside a big firm, or just part of a big email group, you probably get a lot of messages that aren't really addressed to you directly, but they land in the same bin as the others. Differentiate between need-to-see-it direct mail and group FYI blasts with color coding, available in the settings for Outlook and Thunderbird, or the simple > and >> arrows enabled in Gmail.