I hate email. Mostly.

by admin on January 4, 2010

in General

Having pretty much stayed offline the whole of the end of year holiday break imagine my horror at seeing the dreaded email inbox. 250 plus messages. Where does it all come from during a holiday period? I have a number of automated subscription style notification services. That accounts for about 80%. Another 10% comes from people dropping me a note on the off chance I might be interested in what they say. That’s borderline spam and almost always gets deleted without opening. The final 10% represents stuff from sources and around topics in which I am interested.

Ideally I’d like to concentrate attention on that final 10% but the other 90% has to be processed before I can get to any of it. That’s where filtered lists come in. Despite being used to dealing with email on a daily basis the year’s opening tsunami show I’ve not created enough lists. There was way too much ‘stuff’ in the general email inbox. More important, the exercise has concentrated my thinking to deleting my name from a clutch of lists. I don’t get enough value to compensate for the effort needed to work through all the ‘stuff’ I receive.

Lesson 1 for 2010. And like all such lessons, painful.

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Hi I really have the same feeling that I opened my email box with more than 300 email in a day , that coming from one of my customer. I really don't know how to open and read so many email at all. Well , the final and simple action is to cancel that account, as a valuable customer will not behave like this at all.

I feel your pain. I created a subscriptions folder in Outlook, and then created Rules that automatically take all the marketing emails, LinkedIn updates, and so forth and plucks them out of my Inbox and into that subscriptions folder. I now also create a rule for every new subscription, or any regularly scheduled emails that don't require a quick reply. That frees up my Inbox for the real stuff, and let's me sort (or just delete) everything else at my leisure. The bonus: the volume of "real" mail is far less daunting than when you add every email into the mix.

I feel your pain. I created a subscriptions folder in Outlook, and then created Rules that automatically take all the marketing emails, LinkedIn updates, and so forth and plucks them out of my Inbox and into that subscriptions folder. I now also create a rule for every new subscription, or any regularly scheduled emails that don't require a quick reply. That frees up my Inbox for the real stuff, and let's me sort (or just delete) everything else at my leisure. The bonus: the volume of "real" mail is far less daunting than when you add every email into the mix.

I feel your pain. I created a subscriptions folder in Outlook, and then created Rules that automatically take all the marketing emails, LinkedIn updates, and so forth and plucks them out of my Inbox and into that subscriptions folder. I now also create a rule for every new subscription, or any regularly scheduled emails that don't require a quick reply. That frees up my Inbox for the real stuff, and let's me sort (or just delete) everything else at my leisure. The bonus: the volume of "real" mail is far less daunting than when you add every email into the mix.

You should have a look at OtherInbox, I use it for all those pesky "automated" lists. So I set those to send a weekly digest and they even get filed in a read status in a particular label in GMail so they are there but you have to seek them out.-d

You should have a look at OtherInbox, I use it for all those pesky "automated" lists. So I set those to send a weekly digest and they even get filed in a read status in a particular label in GMail so they are there but you have to seek them out.-d

You should have a look at OtherInbox, I use it for all those pesky "automated" lists. So I set those to send a weekly digest and they even get filed in a read status in a particular label in GMail so they are there but you have to seek them out.

-d

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