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I wonder if the name "inbox" is what causes people so much stress. I don't think of it as an actual inbox. It's just where my mail goes - all of it. I read ever
by scott_s 11y ago
I wonder if the name "inbox" is what causes people so much stress. I don't think of it as an actual inbox. It's just where my mail goes - all of it. I read everything, but I don't bother organizing it. Occasionally I'll mark some message as important, or keep a few open so I can get to them later. But most often, I don't.
Search is easy. I don't see the point in organizing my mail.
- soft_dev_person 11y agoTrue for Gmail (and similar, I'm sure), not so true for my corporate Outlook account where search sucks and is really slow, and has ridiculously tiny storage allocated so I actually have to archive older messages in an actual file...
- toothbrush 11y agoWhat about something like OfflineIMAP + notmuch or mu? That works for me, and search is as good (or better) than it was for me using Gmail.
- pm215 11y agoNot all Exchange setups are configured to allow IMAP access...
- psychometry 11y agoSounds like you just have an incompetent IT department. Storage is cheap and fast searching of databases is a solved problem.
- scott_s 11y agoAs of a week ago, I was on Notes at work, which had not-so-great search. I still did this. Once or twice in the past few years I had to go in an delete large attachments, but I do that when it becomes a problem. It's not worth the mental effort of categorizing emails. (And deleting counts as categorizing.) Now I'm on Verse (http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/ http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/), and it has great search. I'll keep doing what I was doing, just with even less pain.
- towelguy 11y agoI'd say gmail labels are more like premade searches (with the added bonus of the unread count). I tend to move every email I expect into it's own label with filters and the "inbox" is just for the unexpected stuff.
- beachstartup 11y agoorganizing email is a fool's errand.