I use Gmail, but I deactivated that feature. It resulted in too many emails getting missed because they got categorized as promotions or updates. Here is what

I use Gmail, but I deactivated that feature. It resulted in too many emails getting missed because they got categorized as promotions or updates. Here is what I now do instead: 1. I archive all incoming email unless I still need to act on it. Ideally my inbox should always be empty. 2. I unsubscribe from all unwanted email like newsletters and most social network updates. 3. I learned gmail keyboard shortcuts to clear my inbox quickly. 4. I use filters for some mailing lists. Since I started doing this I am much more on top of my emails. At least for me, most emails in those tabs was stuff I wasn't going to read anyway.