It's difficult to maintain control of your inbox. We're all constantly bombarded by politicians begging for money, sales coupons for sites we visited once in 2019, dubious-sounding salad recipes from your sister-in-law in Minnesota, and -- on rare occasion -- something important. But it's important that you see those important messages when they come in, and that you know where to find those messages later if you need to go back and search for them. That's where I come in.

I go through your inbox and organize it completely from the ground up. I'll create a series of dozens, sometimes hundreds of folders and sub-folders to archive your existing messages in an orderly fashion. I'll create more storage room by deleting old sales inquiries. I'll unsubscribe you from all the recurring junk mail. And I'll give you a spreadsheet with a list of everything I've done -- the folders/sub-folders, the lists I've unsubscribed from, the lists I *can't* unsubscribe from (generally because they require two-factor authentication), and (depending on your email client) some common rules that you can create to sort incoming messages before they even show up in your inbox.

We can schedule a Zoom call to look at your inbox together. I'll show you exactly what I plan to do, and I'll be able to give you a rough idea of how many sessions the cleanup should take. After the Zoom session, I would then continue the process offline across one or more sessions until the inbox is completely sorted. This would require temporary access to your email account, though this won't prevent you from accessing and working in the inbox at the same time. (We will temporarily use flags to note which items you're currently working on and do not want sorted.) As a frame of reference, I usually estimate about one session per 5,000 unread messages.

Ignoring a coupon is harmless; overlooking a client request, bill, or deadline is not. Let's get you back to Inbox Zero.