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# My New Email Strategy: The Email Game and ActiveInbox
![The Email Game](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/theemailgamefull.png)

The Email Game works only with Gmail and Google Apps. Once you type in your email address, The Email Game sucks in about 50 of your latest gmail messages and lets you process them rapidly -- replying, archiving, labeling, and so on. There's a timer counting down with each email, so that you don't spend too long replying.

For email that I need to save and address later, I label it with the Next, Action, or Waiting On labels that come with [ActiveInbox](http://www.activeinboxhq.com/). ActiveInbox is a plugin for Gmail that incorporates some Getting Things Done philosophy into email.