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The "On registering Correspondence" section is rather fascinating - neurotic, but probably extremely helpful for someone who received a large number of letters.
by bshimmin 11y ago
The "On registering Correspondence" section is rather fascinating - neurotic, but probably extremely helpful for someone who received a large number of letters. I wonder what he would've made of "Inbox Zero"!
- kissickas 11y agoI think he would have found threaded emails with labeling an acceptable replacement.
- Tloewald 11y agoExactly — the stuff on keeping a mail register essentially amounts to manually creating the equivalent of an email client, complete with tracking conversation threads, subject lines, figuring out which messages need replies, and which messages are urgent or require further action. One thing which struck me is that his example numbering system had exceeded 22000, and I doubt he logged spam.
- keenerd 11y ago> his example numbering system had exceeded 22000 There was a lot of correspondence going around. In Carroll's time, good cities would deliver and pick up mail from your home four times a day. (And now plenty of people check their email less often.)
- Tloewald 11y agoAnd it was also doing the job of your telephone.
- ableal 11y ago'Beginning in his late twenties, he kept a register of “Letters Received and Sent,” along with a précis of each letter. The final tally was 98,721.' http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/08/go-ask-alice-a-critic-at-large-lane http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/08/go-ask-alice-a-...