Digging out of the rubble of an overloaded inbox.
October 24th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that there were more than 1,600 e-mails lurking in my Gmail inbox — most of them unread.
After using many kinds of arcane Inbox-Fu, there are now . . . 11 messages.
Since I’ve taken vicious whacks at my work e-mail, too, there are now less than 80 messages total in all of my inboxes. This is a psychological relief, but it’s also a pragmatic advantage since I’ve more or less stopped using project folders in e-mail. The messages that remain represent most of the live obligations I have underway.
Now to cut that pile down even smaller . . .
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(Photo by Rob Brewer, used under a CC-Share Alike license.)
October 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Bravo! Well done! Now I’m going to my own pile of rubble and start tossing…..:)
October 25th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Nicely nicely! Whenever I scale my inbox down to 10, it jumps to 100 in no time.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Oh, it’s an ongoing process, no doubt, Ari.
The main this is: the logjam is broken. As I write this, there are 14 items in my inbox. Once I cut it down to size, I can keep it there.