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Email Strategy: Reduce overwhelm by deprioritizing copied in emails
Email Strategy. Reduce overwhelm by deprioritizing copied in emails.
- Automatically move all emails that you are copied in on to a “Weekly Review” folder and alert the sender that they need to send directly if it is more important than that.

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I think this is good although not for me as I have developed systems for email. I have action and waiting for folders. If I
It can’t be dealt with in five mins or deleted then it goes to one of those two folders. I just need to remember to check them then lol. But the reason I popped on here is to see if anyone knows a way to extend the theory to the endless teams meetings that get put in diaries. I get totally overwhelmed by all the regular meetings that are in there even on days when I’m not a work. If I decline the invite, it disappears and then I can’t access the meeting
I did this and it reduced my inbox by 75% - I am less anxious now when looking at it and my focus has improved, as I can now see which emails I really need to action. I also leave an hour at the end of each day to deal with e-mails, this helps to keep me focused throughout the day.
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Love it so much! But not something I could do in every workplace I'v been in,
The fear that I will miss something really causes me issues automating the organising of my inbox so I'm stuck with overwhelm
Really good idea, something I will implement.
I always get fed up and overwhelmed by too many emails, especially the ones not relevant to me and JUNK mail. I shove a lot in archives but this is a great idea. Is there a way of stopping junk mail that is not going to cost me fees?
Would love this if it were possible
There are no instructions on how to do it.
I copied the text into Google “how do i Automatically move all emails that you are copied in on to a “Weekly Review” folder”.
it gave instructions on how to Automatically move emails but not those that you are copied in on to.
it was therefore a waste of time
Here are some instructions to do this (these are for Outlook desktop client on Windows).
Before we start, create the folder that you want to move these emails to. Right-click in the folder tree in your inbox to create a new folder.
Also, create a template for the automatic reply, using these instructions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-an-email-message-template-43ec7142-4dd0-4351-8727-bd0977b6b2d1
Outlook configuration:
1. From the Home tab on the ribbon, click on the Rules drop down button, and choose Manage Rules and Alerts.
2. Click New Rule in the window that pops up.
3. Under "Start from a blank rule" highlight "Apply rule on messages I receive" and click Next
4. Where it says "Step one, select conditions", make sure that "Where my name is in the Cc box" is the only box ticked, and click Next
5. Under "what do you want to do with the message?" make sure that both "move it to the specified folder" and "reply using a specific template" are ticked.
6. Now look further down the dialog box: where it says "Step 2: edit the rule description (click an underlined value)" you need to ciick on the underlined words "a specific template". This will allow you to navigate to wherever you saved your template and select it, meaning that this reply will be sent every time you are CCd in an email (much like an out of office reply).
7. Also click on the underlined word "specified" in "move it to the specified folder". This will allow you to choose the folder you created earlier.
If you're happy with this, you can click "Finish" and you're done. Or if you click Next you get the chance to set exceptions (perhaps you don't want this happen for emails from a certain person, for example). Clicking Next after that will let you set the name of the rule (which is optional).
Good luck!
Here are some instructions to do this (these are for Outlook desktop client on Windows).
Before we start, create the folder that you want to move these emails to. Right-click in the folder tree in your inbox to create a new folder.
Also, create a template for the automatic reply, using these instructions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-an-email-message-template-43ec7142-4dd0-4351-8727-bd0977b6b2d1
Outlook configuration:
1. From the Home tab on the ribbon, click on the Rules drop down button, and choose Manage Rules and Alerts.
2. Click New Rule in the window that pops up.
3. Under "Start from a blank rule" highlight "Apply rule on messages I receive" and click Next
4. Where it says "Step one, select conditions", make sure that "Where my name is in the Cc box" is the only box ticked, and click Next
5. Under "what do you want to do with the message?" make sure that both "move it to the specified folder" and "reply using a specific template" are ticked.
6. Now look further down the dialog box: where it says "Step 2: edit the rule description (click an underlined value)" you need to ciick on the underlined words "a specific template". This will allow you to navigate to wherever you saved your template and select it, meaning that this reply will be sent every time you are CCd in an email (much like an out of office reply).
7. Also click on the underlined word "specified" in "move it to the specified folder". This will allow you to choose the folder you created earlier.
If you're happy with this, you can click "Finish" and you're done. Or if you click Next you get the chance to set exceptions (perhaps you don't want this happen for emails from a certain person, for example). Clicking Next after that will let you set the name of the rule (which is optional).
Good luck!
There are no instructions on how to do it.
I copied the text into Google “how do i Automatically move all emails that you are copied in on to a “Weekly Review” folder”.
it gave instructions on how to Automatically move emails but not those that you are copied in on to.
it was therefore a waste of time
Would love this if it were possible
I always get fed up and overwhelmed by too many emails, especially the ones not relevant to me and JUNK mail. I shove a lot in archives but this is a great idea. Is there a way of stopping junk mail that is not going to cost me fees?
Really good idea, something I will implement.
The fear that I will miss something really causes me issues automating the organising of my inbox so I'm stuck with overwhelm
Love it so much! But not something I could do in every workplace I'v been in,
Test of 5 stars
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