Some days it feels like I’m playing the world’s longest game of whack-a-mole in my inbox. If this sounds familiar to you and you’re a Gmail/ G Suite user, there are some things that you can do to tilt the odds of winning that game of email whack-a-mole in your favor. Those things include creating canned responses, scheduling messages, enabling smart replies, and creating message filters. Those time-saving Gmail features are demonstrated in the video below.

One more time-saver is to make sure that you have your contacts organized into groups. Doing that can save you time when you’re trying to send a message to department members, parent groups, or any other group that you frequently send the same messages to.