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Use GMail's priority inbox. Train it according to your personal subjective notion of importance. It will eventually become as good at separating the wheat from
by natrius 14y ago
Use GMail's priority inbox. Train it according to your personal subjective notion of importance. It will eventually become as good at separating the wheat from the chaff as it is at separating spam from your real email.
- gcr 14y ago"Eventually"? How well does the priority inbox work for people in the real world? (I'm a curious non-gmail user)
- natrius 14y agoIt became very accurate for me within three days.
- atrus 14y agoIt's fairly responsive to your needs. It will pick up on an email threads importance (as in a mailing list) fairly quickly. From what I gather (not knowing anything official about Priority inbox), it seems to take into account how long you spend looking at an email (either thread or from an author). Email threads that I zip through never get tagged as important, whereas some threads that I've spend time looking at it will tell me that it's important from then on (and pick out other emails that are somewhat similar in content) It also responds fairly quickly to changing preferences. I've had threads, regular email updates that have been tagged as important (either by me or by silicon) and I've had a change of heart and untagged it, and it won't mark it as important, and I'll notice a dropoff in similar topics being tagged as important. It's nice, as I used to get a ding for every email I received, and I felt compelled to at least _look_ at it. I've since set it to ding only when something tagged as important pops in (only up to 5 times a day) and I'll only check all my other mail maybe once a day. If that.