My suggestions would be: 1. Seperate work and personal - There is no need to be receiving emails from friends, Amazon or whoever when you're at work. Have a se

My suggestions would be: 1. Seperate work and personal - There is no need to be receiving emails from friends, Amazon or whoever when you're at work. Have a separate Inbox to process these, they will be waiting for you when you chose to look at them, not to distract you when replying to work emails. 2. Unsubscribe from everything - When was the last time you looked at or read a promotional email or weekly newsletter? If it wasn't recently (a month), then unsubscribe. 3. Manage your contacts - Do you need to be CC'd into every email? If you don't want to receive so many emails from a colleague, just email politely and say, due to the amount of emails you get, please don't CC me unless it's vitally important. This may have the added benefit of drawing their attention to what they're doing and make them reconsider who else they're CC'ing. 4. Consider separate email accounts for separate purposes - Running a businesses, a non-profit (as per OP) and you attend conferences alot? Why not have four email accounts? That way you can separate each of your 2 'jobs' and have one email for your personal friends and family, The Queen and Amazon. A separate 'public profile' account can be used to field incoming requests for help or advice or meet-ups from strangers or acquaintances that you may meet at Conferences or on your blog. These are unlikely to be high-priority but you can have a scan through at your leisure when you get the time without them interrupting your normal work flow. However, I can't help but feel sometimes, people who receive thousands of emails it's because they actually like to receive thousands of emails because it makes them feel and look more important and popular than they perhaps are. How many of those email chains were actually started by you sending out emails to other people? Or inviting people to contact you on websites or conferences? We've all heard someone subtly boasting about coming back from holiday and having x hundred emails. All they're really saying is "look how popular I am and how much people need me". The irony of course is that, even with all of those unanswered emails, it's amazing how things just kept working as normal.