Ask HN: how do you quit checking emails the first thing in the morning?

I check emails first thing in the morning to get them out of the way. Only when my inbox is cleared do I start actual work.

I don't see any problem with working like that?

I agree. The real problem is when you find yourself interrupting other, more important tasks, just to check your emails. Clearing my inbox first thing then at set times throughout the day (e.g. in between Pomodoros, if you're into that) has been working well for me.

Leave the laptop, smartphone and tablet in the other room when you go to bed. Upon waking create a different habit to adopt. Make coffee, brush your teeth, take a shower. Anything that stops you from checking email.

I use a filter to send most of my email into a "Batch" folder which I check maybe once a day, if that. The rest of the email I do check first thing in the morning, and like jstanley I get to inbox zero (on the non-batch stuff) every morning before I start working.

how about just stop doing it?

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