Waiting

[aliskye]

I'm waiting for the washing machines in the building to be empty so I can do a couple of loads so I can pack.

In the meantime,I'm waiting for a CoH update to load.

So I'm cleaning out my email inbox. Why in the world don't I do this regularly!? There is appalling amount of mail in the inbox. Now some are things I'm happy to be reminded of, but the rest is junk that could have been tossed after reading (or at least within a few days.)

How does everyone else handle email? What's your secret!? No one has as much mail piled up as I do!

Comments

[aumtattoo.livejournal.com]

I turn on my computer every morning before I got to work (when I worked out of the home) and read my email. Then I'd check it at work and then again in the evening. :) My email is open all day, every day - and was when I was at work too.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Touch it once. Meaning that if it's worthy of saving, it goes in a special folder. Otherwise, out it goes, once read.

Though I'll admit that the infrequent occasion when the email calls for a lengthy, thought-out answer, I'll let it sit in my inbox for, maybe, the waking hours of a day. By bedtime, out it goes.

[the-celestia.livejournal.com]

All kingdom lists or specific topic lists go to one address. That gets cleaned out twice a day or more if I am home and most of them go on vacation hold when I am at Pennsic. I am brutal: half the people on any given list are on delete on arrival, once a topic goes astray or is not of interest it is on delete on arrival...or I'd never get through them all.

I don't go back and read on vacation hold. I don't read any list that is more than 25% drivel (defined as not of interest to me - it's MY time!).

I have a personal email for the real world and for SCA, those are each message read, delete unless a reply needed, filed after reply and within 24 hours of receipt.

I have another for officer stuff and land agent/event steward stuff. Those get attended to every morning until the task is completed then the address gets changed to cut down on spamload.

99% of what I receive is not really relevant (I don't get work email to speak of, other than continuing education stuff and that goes to yet another address and gets dealt with ASAP because it matters!)

So my secret is, be brutal. Read it once, file it (10% if that) or delete it. It probably also helps that I can only spend so much time at the computer a day due to a nerve issue that the keyboard and mouse aggrevate.

t_C

[jkrissw.livejournal.com]

Don't let it pile up. Check it in the morning, and in the evening.

[devil-liaison.livejournal.com]

I've over 4 thousand emails. That's probably not a lot, but I just let them pile up 'cause I'm lazy like that.