One of the wonderful aspects of email is that it connects everyone in the entire world with the taps of a few keys. It's been a wonderful invention that's been powering business and personal communications for over thirty years.

The downside of email is that it connects everyone globally – with just a few taps of a keyboard. We're all getting more emails than we know how to handle. There are nearly 4 billion email users around the world, and experts indicate that business users receive nearly 100 emails per day.

Many email providers already offer some basic organizational tools, so let's take a look at some of the most popular ones out there before exploring tools to take email organization to the next level and recapping some fundamentals of inbox management.