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Yes, this. It's about the freedom to forget. Important stuff bubbles up again and again. This is why I mark everything as read once every couple of years and j
by mmastrac 7y ago
Yes, this. It's about the freedom to forget. Important stuff bubbles up again and again.
This is why I mark everything as read once every couple of years and just give up. It's impossible to deal with everything.
- daniel_iversen 7y agoAgree that this very wise to do. We are fooled into thinking everything is important and that we are always “behind”. Being overwhelmed is generally not that you have too much to do, but it is that you don’t know where to start. Following on from your process of dealing with email, I have a bunch or aggressive filters that mark emails as “not important” and “probably not important” and then I have a google script that runs constantly and auto archives old mails with those labels, because if I haven’t dealt with them yet it’s not the end of the world and they don’t need to stick around - “OBE”!