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April 28, 2005

Reviving your Inbox

We admit it. The Bleeding Edge Inbox is out of control. At last count we had something like 6000 messages in there, and we honestly don't know when we're going to get the time to prune it back to something more manageable. Like, say, a dozen messages.

This has all come about because we lack a real system. We do things like putting a message aside until we have time to answer it, then getting snowed under and losing track of it. Plus, we've got too many mailboxes, which aren't particularly well targeted.

According to Mac World's Merlin T. Mann (how can you argue with someone called Merlin, particularly when he runs the 43folders site?) we've got to have no more than seven mailboxes, and we've got to learn how to use them properly. Also, we've got to put ourselves on an email diet. We can't treat ourselves to new stuff any more than hourly.

Posted by cw at April 28, 2005 03:17 PM

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Posted by: Dom at April 29, 2005 05:48 PM