Lifehacker has this fantastic article on how to Turn Gmail Into Your Ultimate Getting Things Done Inbox. One of their readers reveals some really simple tricks to clean things up, which have been working wonders for me lately.

Prior to reading this, I did use Superstars to differentiate priority, but only had one separate inbox for all of the emails. Now, I have five, divided into Immediate, Eventually, Ready, Reference, and Drafts. The first three speak for themselves, but Reference is specific to my “customer support” job with DestroyTwitter. Whenever I ask someone to send me their settings folder for me to debug, I can easily mark it as Reference and get to it when I can.