One easy way to manage your email
If you feel like you're swimming in an ocean of spam—and these days who isn't—you may need to (gasp!) sign up for another email account.
Now why would anyone want to sign up for a second account when it's hard enough just managing one? Well, for one thing, you will be able to use one account as what we'll call a "working account" and the other for what we'll call a "peripheral account."
Here's how it works:
- Depending on the volume of email you receive, you may want to go with a service that offers free megastorage, such as Yahoo! or Google’s Gmail. You will want to clean your current inbox out, so that you can start fresh.
- Once you get your second email account set up, then you will have to start designating what you want to come in to your working account versus everything else.
- For instance, you would give your working account address to business contacts and friends you want to keep in touch with, and you would use your peripheral account for signing up for various things.
- So, if there is a store you want to get coupons from, you would use your peripheral address to sign up for its email coupons. That way, if you get bombarded by offers, etc., they will not clog your working account and make it difficult to navigate.
- You can do your work and other important communications in your working file. Everything else belongs in the peripheral account. You might be surprised at how well this system works.