05 📧 Outlook Academy

Your inbox was designed to receive mail. It was never designed to be your to-do list, your filing cabinet, your diary and your memory all at once - but that's what most of us use it for, and that's why it feels heavy.

Outlook Academy teaches the STACK method: six folders, one decision per email, and an inbox that ends the day empty. It works whether you get 20 emails a day or 200.

By the end you'll be able to:

• Explain why an empty inbox is a filing outcome, not a productivity contest
• Sort any email into one of six folders in under three seconds, using the 5-minute rule
• Build the folders, Quick Steps and rules in Outlook that make that a one-click move
• Set a realistic target number for each folder and know what to do when you're over it
• Use flagging and deleting to keep the system light, rather than letting folders quietly fill