Randall F. Dean argues that marking emails unread, flagged, or starred is a mistake in email management. He presents a better approach to handling your inbox instead of relying on these common marking habits.
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Hi everybody. So what do you do when you have an email that you can't deal with right now? Do you open that email, read it just a little bit, and then come up here to the top and hit Mark Unread and then close it? Look, it's unread. Or Do you come over here and turn on the little flaggies? No, no, no, Randy, I use Gmail. So as a Gmail user, do you open up the email, read it a little bit, then come up to the three little dots at the top and hit Mark as Unread? Or maybe you come over here and turn on the little stars. And I'll tell you what you just did. You just guaranteed you got to look at it again later, and again, and again. You know there's a better way? Keep reading.