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Everybody gets important emails, and it's literally part of their job to filter the wheat from the chaff. One of my benchmarks for someone's competency is their
by kmoser 1y ago
Everybody gets important emails, and it's literally part of their job to filter the wheat from the chaff. One of my benchmarks for someone's competency is their ability to manage information. With a combination of email filters and mental discipline, even the most busy inbox can be manageable. But this is an acquired skill, akin to not getting lost in social media, and some people are far better at it than others.
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoIf the same internal sender sends both irrelevant and important messages, it'll be pretty hard or impossible to filter. My #1 method of keeping my inbox clean, is unsubscribing from newsletters.
- Marsymars 1y agoOur HR lady took personal offence when I asked to be unsubscribed from the emails about “deals” that employees have access to from corporate partners. :(
- Vilian 1y agoYou can set custom rules in thunderbird to deal with specific mails, like tagging it as a "sale" or just deleting it based on regex
- Marsymars 1y agoYeah, I ended up doing that with Outlook. I also set up a rule to auto-delete phishing test emails based on their headers, which annoyed the security team.
- kmoser 1y agoYes, the last filter is always the human being who has to deal with whatever the computer couldn't automate. But even then, you should be able to skim an email and quickly determine its relevancy, and decide whether you need to take action immediately, can leave it for the future, or can just delete it. Unless you're getting thousands of emails a day, this should be manageable.