One click. Two seconds. Your most important emails — always at the top.

We've all been there.

You're in the middle of something important and you remember: "I need to follow up on that email." So you go to your inbox. You scroll. You search. You get lost in your inbox. You lose two minutes — (or more 😏) — AND your train of thought.

What if the emails that need your attention, the ones you know you're gonna need to find in the near future were simply — always at the top? Just sayin? 🤷‍♀️

Last week we talked about using Rules to move low-priority emails out of your way. This is the flip side: making sure your high-priority emails are impossible to miss.

Most of us manage this with mental sticky notes.

"I need to come back to that."
"Don't forget to reply."
"That one is important."

That is not a system. That is a slow leak on your focus (and brain power).

Every email you're mentally "tracking" is a tiny background process runni...