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I don't understand this "Inbox Zero" stress. How hard is it to set up filters on your email? How hard is it to swipe it away to archive it? How many emails do y

by vilmosi 11y ago

I don't understand this "Inbox Zero" stress. How hard is it to set up filters on your email? How hard is it to swipe it away to archive it? How many emails do you have to write a day?!

stephengillie 11y ago
You're using the Gmail model, where mail has labels and gets archived. I think a lot of people are using the other model, where email goes in folders and gets deleted. Living in the MS world, I struggle to use the Gmail model. I create an Archive folder and put it as a favorite folder. When I'm done with an email, instead of deleting it like Outlook wants, I stick it into the Archive folder. I constantly have to check my Sent Items folder to move those into the Archive folder as well, as there doesn't seem to be an automated way to move those there.
- Jtsummers 11y ago
  https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Introduction-to-AutoArchive-in-Outlook-d3112f36-a590-4795-9f09-e7ec292bbb80 https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Introduction-to-Aut... Right click on the folder (Sent Items in this case). Select properties, go to the AutoArchive tab. Specify the rules (where to move it and when). AutoArchive gets executed periodically, but you can also force it through the File menu. File -> Info -> Cleanup Tools -> Mailbox Cleanup -> AutoArchive (probably a faster way but that's the way I found).
  - stephengillie 11y ago
    Ah yes, AutoArchive. Much as how AutoRecover (Word) is not AutoSave (N++), AutoArchive is not Archive. Archive is the manual process of dropping your mail into another folder when you've processed it from your inbox, in order to keep yourself organized. AutoArchive, as the link suggests, is an automated tool that will age mail from your archive folder (and rules-based folders) into older storage folders, for technical reasons - folder capacity is finite, but we can make more folders. Confusion between the two is probably exacerbating the Inbox Zero crisis.
- lfowles 11y ago
  This is what I use in mutt (incidentally it works in most mail clients ;) ) Read = Out of mind Flagged = Take action, don't forget Unread = Delete (and/or unsubscribe), read, or flag I use folders for common senders, so Inbox only contains roughly unique emails (or spam) (ex: Steam and Amazon folders because receipts aren't important enough to take a decision on every time, but I do like to keep track of them)
- vilmosi 11y ago
  As many people with jobs, I too use Microsoft's email. However archiving is less important to me. The only reason I archive is because it's a quick way to "Mark as read" in Google. I don't really care about archiving per se. I always assumed Inbox Zero refers you the number of unread emails you have. Archiving is about something else.
sosborn 11y ago
> How many emails do you have to write a day?! Way too fucking many :(

by vilmosi 11y ago

I don't understand this "Inbox Zero" stress. How hard is it to set up filters on your email? How hard is it to swipe it away to archive it? How many emails do you have to write a day?!

stephengillie 11y ago

You're using the Gmail model, where mail has labels and gets archived. I think a lot of people are using the other model, where email goes in folders and gets deleted. Living in the MS world, I struggle to use the Gmail model. I create an Archive folder and put it as a favorite folder. When I'm done with an email, instead of deleting it like Outlook wants, I stick it into the Archive folder. I constantly have to check my Sent Items folder to move those into the Archive folder as well, as there doesn't seem to be an automated way to move those there.

Jtsummers 11y ago
https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Introduction-to-AutoArchive-in-Outlook-d3112f36-a590-4795-9f09-e7ec292bbb80 https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Introduction-to-Aut... Right click on the folder (Sent Items in this case). Select properties, go to the AutoArchive tab. Specify the rules (where to move it and when). AutoArchive gets executed periodically, but you can also force it through the File menu. File -> Info -> Cleanup Tools -> Mailbox Cleanup -> AutoArchive (probably a faster way but that's the way I found).
- stephengillie 11y ago
  Ah yes, AutoArchive. Much as how AutoRecover (Word) is not AutoSave (N++), AutoArchive is not Archive. Archive is the manual process of dropping your mail into another folder when you've processed it from your inbox, in order to keep yourself organized. AutoArchive, as the link suggests, is an automated tool that will age mail from your archive folder (and rules-based folders) into older storage folders, for technical reasons - folder capacity is finite, but we can make more folders. Confusion between the two is probably exacerbating the Inbox Zero crisis.
lfowles 11y ago
This is what I use in mutt (incidentally it works in most mail clients ;) ) Read = Out of mind Flagged = Take action, don't forget Unread = Delete (and/or unsubscribe), read, or flag I use folders for common senders, so Inbox only contains roughly unique emails (or spam) (ex: Steam and Amazon folders because receipts aren't important enough to take a decision on every time, but I do like to keep track of them)
vilmosi 11y ago
As many people with jobs, I too use Microsoft's email. However archiving is less important to me. The only reason I archive is because it's a quick way to "Mark as read" in Google. I don't really care about archiving per se. I always assumed Inbox Zero refers you the number of unread emails you have. Archiving is about something else.

sosborn 11y ago

> How many emails do you have to write a day?! Way too fucking many :(