Be proactive
If you reduce the flow of information, there’s less rubbish to process. So unsubscribe yourself from all those email lists that hardly ever deliver anything useful. The ‘Conversation View’ in Outlook 2010 is an ideal tool for identifying the chatters that matter, as is the ‘Clean Up’ command, which deletes redundant emails in a thread. And ‘Ignore’ is a great time-saver!