New Year's Tech Resolution: Day Two:

2. Unsubscribe From Email Lists

If you've tamed your email inbox, you'll want to keep it that way.

Hit that "unsubscribe" button, set up filters for newsletter and marketing emails, and learn how to back out of email threads from co-workers (it's the "ignore" button in Outlook, and be sure to read up on what it does and learn to use it wisely).

However you cut down on unwanted email, remember that the work you do now will last well into the future.

If you set up your own rules for filtering messages, you'll maintain complete control, but it could also take a long time to do, unless you use an email service with very helpful built-in tools for filtering Outlook.com and Hotmail have remarkably helpful features.

If you'd rather get some help, RemoveMe for webmail works by putting an "unsubscribe" button right into the preview view of your messages, so you don't have to open them to get off the mailing list.

A more automated option for cutting back on subscription mail is to use Unroll.me, a service that helps you either unsubscribe from or consolidate marketing mail into one digest.