International Law

How to stop your inbox exploding

Cory Doctorow offers five tips to stop from your inbox from exploding:

I live and die in my email, receiving hundreds of non-spam messages every day. If I'm stationary and not actually feeding or playing with the baby, chances are I've got my laptop open somewhere nearby, online and downloading mail. It's my alpha and my omega, my version control system (if I want to find an old version of a document, I just find the copy I emailed to someone earlier), my address book, my journal and my confessor. I have over a million archived pieces of email, going back to 1991.

What's more, my inbox is almost always empty.

I've spent more than a decade tinkering with my email workflow, perfecting it so that I can manage whatever life throws at me through my inbox. I've come up with a few tips and hacks that never fail to surprise and delight my friends and colleagues when I show them off, and here they are, for the record ...

Read more here (from The Guardian).

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).