You may have noticed the little graph on the right. As a part of my "Together Every Day" campaign to organize my life, I've decided to resort to public humiliation as a motivational tool. Now the world can see how much progress I make in my quest to crunch through the backlog of "starred" messages in my inbox.
The first 50 went relatively quickly, for the simple reason that their relevance had passed, and I was able to delete several of them. I suspect that my pace will start to lag as the signal to noise ratio rises, but though it may take months I will not relent until I reach my goal of zero!
Then I can slack again. :)
Let's make this interactive: Do any of you have any advice on how to manage enormous amounts of email? Or general habits / techniques that help you to keep in touch with all your friends from high school, college, previous jobs, etc? Leave a comment - I'd love to hear about them.
2 comments:
I wish I did have some way to get through e-mail! I have a few folders for messages I'm "done with" but as it is I have somewhere around 500 messages in my collective "inboxes"... but they can't be that important right?
Yeah, I've tried the New Year's card thing... there are some people with whom I don't seem to have any other correspondence through the year.
New Year's emails, on the other hand... I tried doing that last year, and I was completely overwhelmed by the responses, and unable to write back to everyone in bounded time.
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