So you’ve created a Gmail account, and are happily using it for your personal stuff.  You subscribe to a thing or two, and before you know it, your mailbox is flooded with emails.  Newsletters, breaking news, helpful local happenings.  You do want to be in the know, just need to manage them a bit better.
Enter Gmail filters.
These filters are analogous to rules on other email systems, and are really easy to set up.  To the right of the search box, right after Search Web and Search Mail, you will find …

Keeping track of every item on your shopping, project and scheduling list in your head is a complete waste of your brain power.  Not to mention that awful sense of unease that you must be forgetting something …
Get it out of your head and into a single, trusted “inbox”. There only three requirements for a good inbox are:

It must be with you at all times
You always use it to accept input
You always refer to it (this is the difficult bit!)

You see, your brain comes right on top when being auditioned …

Many years ago while in the middle of a mid-life crisis (I had them often in my early twenties), I decided to make a list.   The List.  It was essentially a to-do list on steroids.  Nowadays they come with pictures and are called vision boards.  But back then, I didn’t quite have that terminology available to me, so it was just A To-Do List.