One of the biggest culprits of stolen time is the never-ending inbox.

Did you know?

The average employee receives 304 business emails a week, checks their email 36 times per hour, then has to spends 16 minutes refocusing after handling the incoming messages?

According to Atlassian , you lose 10 IQ points when fielding constant email. That's the same result as missing an entire night's sleep. Just imagine how that affects an entire day's work.

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest." - Leo Babauta

A basic rule of thumb for dealing with a busy inbox is this:

If you can respond to, or act on, any email in two minutes, do it right then. If it's going to take more time than that, move it into a task manager to deal with later. Even better still, eliminate the complexity of email with SavvyDox - an application for simplified document collaboration that identifies all your open tasks as well as their due dates to help you prioritize your workload.

This puts control of your time back in your own hands as you now have the ability to prioritize tasks and emails in relation to each other.

But of course we're going to give you more help than that. Here are a few tools to keep your inbox tidy and your stress level low.