Email Like an Owner: Filters, Templates, and Rules That Free Your Brain

By Tarun Basrai

Your inbox should be boring. Instead, it is where your focus goes to die. "Email Like an Owner" is a practical guide to reclaiming your attention by redesigning how email reaches you, how you respond, and how quickly work moves to done. Instead of chasing inbox zero, you will build a system for email productivity that protects thinking time while keeping you reliably responsive. Drawing on operations, psychology, and hard-won experience, Tarun Basrai shows you how to architect your inbox as a routing engine, not a bottomless to-do list. You will learn to design smart email filters rules, create meaningful VIP lists, and set up auto-archive so low-value messages vanish from sight. Clear batching windows and service levels replace "ASAP" panic. The result is a calm, predictable flow of messages that deserve your attention. The book goes beyond tools into behaviour. You will practise writing decision-focused messages that achieve "done on first reply", using templates and canned responses templates for repeat mail without sounding robotic. You will clean up thread hygiene, fix CC/BCC chaos, and implement assistant email handoff with clear playbooks and guardrails. Throughout, the emphasis is on deep work protection: keeping your best hours free for the judgment calls only you can make. "Email Like an Owner" is for founders, managers, and ambitious professionals who are tired of feeling owned by their inbox. If you are ready to stop firefighting and start designing, this book will help you turn email from a constant distraction into quiet, dependable infrastructure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9376559088
• ISBN13: 9789376559084
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Mindful Pages
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"