Email Productivity Tips

Our email inboxes are busy, with the majority of people finding inbox zero an elusive task. As of 2018, there are about 124.5 billion business emails sent and received each day according to Campaign Monitor. It goes without saying that some emails are going to pass you by and go unread. But what if you […]

If you have a busy and complicated inbox, then often it can be useful to archive old emails rather than delete them or store them under labels. This allows you to access them when you really need them, without cluttering your dashboard. Luckily, Gmail makes it just as easy to retrieve archived emails as it […]

You’d be pretty normal if you came to your inbox each day to find dozens – if not hundreds – of unread emails. But that can sometimes mean you miss new messages when they come through. To make things simpler, and to give you a fresh start, you can mark all your old emails as […]

Keeping on top of emails is one of the biggest day-to-day challenges modern professionals face. A recent study has shown that the typical American worker receives an average of 120 emails every day – that’s a lot of messages to read, store, reply to, or delete. But reaching Inbox Zero is an elusive task. It’s […]

Most of us have had the experience of sending an email and waiting anxiously for a response, but having absolutely no idea of whether or not the recipient has opened and read it. If you’re kept waiting for some time, you may be tempted to send a follow-up. But how soon is too soon? What […]

For better or for worse, the email inbox dominates our workdays. It’s estimated that over 120 emails are received each day in the average American worker’s inbox, and The Radicati Group estimates that we sent 281+ billion personal and professional emails per day in 2018. That’s a lot of time spent reading, writing, and responding […]

Working out how to appropriately sign-off professional emails is often one of the most awkward parts of business comms. And getting it right is an art form. Overly-formal emails and messages that are too casual can both be off-putting. And getting the closing wrong can make you come across as presumptive (“Look forward to hearing […]

With the rise in popularity of real-time communication apps like Slack, WhatsApp, and Skype, you may find it surprising that email is still the primary tool for communication at work – and with 3.9 billion users around the world, that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Dominating that space are Gmail and Outlook – two of […]

We’ve all had that feeling – you’ve sent a super-important message and are waiting eagerly for a response. You don’t know if the email has landed safely; you can’t tell if it’s been seen or read, so you sit in limbo while you second-guess your next move. But thankfully, Gmail lets you set up Read Receipts […]

Email signatures are arguably the best way to let your contacts know more about you, and yet they’re often overlooked. Fortunately, creating a new signature or changing an existing one to something more attention-getting is easy. And Right Inbox offers additional features that let you get even more out of your email signature. So what […]