Note: The following is an excerpt from the Scale Smarter Newsletter.

Let me start by saying I’m no email expert. Tim Ferriss’s inbox batching techniques never worked for me. I don’t think I ever hit “inbox zero.”

But I did pick up a few things over the years that have saved me a ton of time and stress. I know there have to be other founders out there who struggle with email. This bud’s for you!

Here are 6 hacks I’ve personally used that you can steal and start using in your inbox to get your time back (plus 3 bonus Gmail features that I make me better at the emails):

1/ Hit The Snooze Button 😴

• If I don’t have time to get to it today
• Push newsletters to the weekend
• Remind me to follow up

2/ Schedule Send Times 📆

• For AM: If I’m working at 11pm, I don’t want to stress my team out, so I’ll schedule for 8am so they see it until the morning
• For EOD: Sometimes I don’t want to get a response or deal with an additional followup/ask, so I’ll schedule for 5:30pm
• For Monday: I would draft my weekly email on Friday afternoon and schedule to hit inboxes Monday at 7am

3/ Labels