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Perhaps a recipe for disaster but I consider ignoring email count and avoiding sorting as a form of zen. The result is you use your fallible mind to prioritize
by cyphunk 11y ago
Perhaps a recipe for disaster but I consider ignoring email count and avoiding sorting as a form of zen. The result is you use your fallible mind to prioritize and remember important mental threads. And if that fails often you may find it better to improve the mind (such as taking a vacation, sleeping better) rather than finding more tools to replace it.
Also, consider that if you are focused on quickness and efficiency that there will be times that the communication this produces, while gratifying for you, is disappointingly hollow for others. And it probably has an additional effect on actual character, similar to how bar tenders form of conversation in personal life may over time start match the chitchat form from work.
- mynegation 11y agoThat is what I do as well. I leave mails in the inbox and flag those that need action or follow-up, and unflag them when I am done. I rely on search to look for an e-mail, There is a rule set up that moves unflagged threads older than X to archive. What counts is not the size of inbox, but unread and flagged count. This works especially well for mobile clients where it is pretty inconvenient to sort e-mail.