1. Turn off email notifications from Facebook. You check it enough. Why do you need emails of notifications? Same with the phone. Turn them off. They are simple distractions that you don't need.
2. Turn off email notifications from Twitter. It's nice to see you have been retweeted, or you have a new follower, but what does it matter? It only causes you to have one more email and a few more minutes of time wasted due to checking your twitter after receiving that email.
3. Desubscribe from newsletters to websites. Websites love to send you newsletters. They want your attention on their site. When you're checking your college email, that isn't the time to be looking up the latest magazine newsletter. Send them to your personal email or another email account for that specific purpose.
4. Create labels / folders, and auto-redirect emails to those folders. Say, Econ 101 emails go to a label "ECON" - that allows you to easily compile all ECON related messages.
5. Turn off notifications from YouTube. This is one of the most important ones. YouTube digest? Do we really need another excuse to watch random videos? Or, you just commented on some video you don't agree with, and now you're getting hate-comments from trolls. You will get emailed letting you know someone responded. Why waste your time responding ? Nothing is going to come from it, except the realization of the time wasted. Turn notifications off and never worry about it again.
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