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How to implement it in Thunderbird
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The first thing you need to do is create the labels in thunderbird:
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once they are all created, you can start labeling mails (of course you need to read them first), so you open one (in this example its for us to action it, and it is a quick action):
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so we just respond to it, and since the mail got responded to, we archive it:
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In this next example it will be a something for us to action, but it takes more than 2 minutes to action. So we mark it as "Todo":
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In the next example we are waiting for someone to respond to us on something, so we are tagging it as "Pending":
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In the next example we are neither required to do anything, nor waiting for someone to do something, we are simply keeping a mail to review later when we get the time, meaning we mark it as "review later":
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And then as you probably guessed we recieved alot of spam, so to select them in one go we can either do "CTRL + LEFT CLICK" or "SHIFT + LEFT CLICK" to select more than one at a time, to archive them.
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Once all emails are marked properly, you have this result, with visual cues as to what you are waiting for, what you need to do, and what you need to review later:
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And now we do the same but from the Sent folder:
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And that's it! Now all that's left is for you to action the mails you marked in red, respond to them and archive them, or get a response for the ones marked in yellow, and archive them, or no longer need the ones in green and archive them. That way you'll highlight the important topics you need to tackle on priority from your mailbox, and get rid of the ones that are no longer relevant.
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