Want to Protect Your Inbox From Unwanted Messages? Use a Web Form

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My email inboxes, all of them, are totally manageable. It's due in no small part to one particular tool I use: a web form. Let me tell you how and why I use it and what benefits I get, aside from a pared-down inbox. I'll also explain why you may or may not want to set one up for yourself.

A web form is exactly what it sounds like—it's a form that lives on a web page. Any time you fill out fields on a web page to, say, create a new account or start a business relationship with someone, you're filling out a web form.

Web forms aren't just for businesses, though that's primarily who uses them. But Individuals can use web forms, too.

To create a web form, you use an online form builder. In my experience, making an online form is extremely easy with a form builder. You set up the form as you want it to appear by choosing from a few options, like whether you want the person to reply with text or select from multiple choices, and filling in a couple of details. Below, you can see how the form-creation process looks in Google Forms:

There are online form builders that you have to pay for, which come with all kinds of bells and whistles, but you can also find perfectly simple ones that are free. Google Forms is free, and it's what I use. Other examples of online form builders are Microsoft Forms, Jotform, Typeform, and Zoho Forms.

When someone fills out your web form, the information can go wherever you want, like to a spreadsheet or another app you use, depending on how you set it up. The simplest solution is for the information to be dropped into a spreadsheet. You can also choose to see individual completed forms in a document-like view.

Below you can see how my form looks to someone who is going to fill it out; note that it's