![]() Genealogy - Technology Links Email is not a 4-letter word. But some days it could be. Personally, I'm bad about managing my email. Currently, I have 6962 unread emails in my inbox. And more in folders I've set up for some regular email. I'm not good about clearing things out in a timely manner. [Obviously.] And I use the any-word search feature a lot to find things in my mailbox. [Obviously.] In my defense, I've been in the process of switching email accounts and only one is easily accessible with my iPhone, and I receive anywhere between 50-100 emails a day. But really? There is no good excuse for letting my mailbox get out of hand. [I mean, I guess...right?] "Just cleared my inbox to zero," said me never. [Okay, I did once several years ago, but? For me, it really wasn't what it's all cracked up to be.] However, I periodically clear out email in bulk. I'll search for things like Google Alerts, newsletters I've signed up for, Twitter emails, Facebook emails and other regular email notices I get then delete them in bulk. Also on my delete-email-in-bulk-days I try to update sites like Twitter and Facebook on the email notifications to lessen my email load. ['Cause I don't handle my Twitter new followers through my email.] Then I also visit Google Alerts and take off alerts on keywords I don't need to stalk [Oops, I mean monitor.] anymore. But lately I've read some good tools and tips out there for us omigosh-I-have-too-much-email-and-the-only-zero-I-see-in-my-email-count-is-never-ever-alone folks. So today's gen-tech list is a rather helpful list [or at least I think so] of some of these awesome email tools and tips. [Unless, of course, that's you I hear singing, "Just cleared my inbox to zero." In which case,... *raspberry* :P ]
So. Maybe I'm not doing it wrong. Perhaps, I am concentrating on what is important by not obsessing about that oft-heard phrase, "Just cleared my inbox to zero!" And wouldn't that be refreshing? What say you? Do you obsess about a totally clean inbox/mailbox? Or? Do you obsess about it and would you rather go back to obsessing about your ancestors, tombstones, and the like? I mean, your email inbox/mailbox is clean, but are you done with your family tree? All the family secrets found? All the mysteries solved? Let's discuss this in comments below, shall we? =) [And? I'm now done with this post, and my unopened email inbox count is at...6970. Oh look. A zero. *raspberry* :P ] ~Caroline
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4YourFamilyStory
9/5/2012 11:41:11 pm
LOL, Joan. I hear it all the time online, and my husband prefers his email inbox at zero and he does it almost every day. He gets it to zero even though he gets the same amount of emails as I do. So. Yeah.
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4YourFamilyStory
9/5/2012 11:45:07 pm
Christine,
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9/6/2012 04:23:54 am
Wow, Caroline, what a cornucopia of good tips to help with email overloads, and yes, by the hundreds and thousands for so many of us. I'm heading for that Unroll.me site, and I love the "first hour of the day" suggestion. Very, very nice and relaxing. So I won't wake up and cringe before all my emails. My sister use to quote what Dorothy Parker would say every time her phone rang: "What fresh hell is this?" Speaks to us all, I think. Thanks for the abundant help!
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9/6/2012 07:28:47 am
Loving this post, Caroline! Like, I'm gonna not read all the links now, and will keep coming back to it throughout the day to space out the inspiration. I received 117 emails between midnight to midnight yesterday, and that's *totally* normal for me, so yeah, I could use some better email management techniques. Thanks!
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4YourFamilyStory
9/9/2012 03:47:06 am
Great Kim! I'm glad I could help you out. Just a matter of deciding who's in control ~ you or the emails.
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4YourFamilyStory
9/9/2012 03:50:33 am
Thanks, Mariann. Ah, and I agree with Dorothy Parker! "...fresh hell..." Love it.
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