|  alikl | Jan 14, 3:01am | hey, what is your best tip for email processing, handling the avalanches of emails?
thanks
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Sponsor |  digits | Jan 14, 8:37am | | plenty of spam filters. |
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|  jpeacock | Jan 14, 8:52am | ditto++
also, if you have a gmail.com account, you can use it to handle any of your pop3 accounts, so you get their great spam filtering as well. |
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| | alikl | Jan 14, 10:26am | | what you do with the email that gets into your inbox? how do you process it, read and archive, move, tag - what are your techniques? |
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Sponsor | | digits | Jan 15, 11:02pm | 4. In order of importance...
1. if it's filtered correctly it goes to specific folders [and performs specific actions] so i know who to answer first or read second or whatever. the spam goes to the trash.
1a. if spam goes through and it ends up in my general folder...[my general folder's for newsletters and etc. i have signed up for]...i may or may not set another filter. i usually delete it. it takes a crappa lot of spam for me to bother with the filters. but the bat makes it easy.
2. i label my folders specifically.
3. automate functions. some folders that mail goes to is informational only...like site stats so i set it to mark it as read. i have affiliate reports sent to me and so it goes to the folder and appends to a text file elsewhere to keep a running tally of monies from particular websites, companies, ventures, affiliates, etc.
4. have a SAVED folder for more important stuff. An OLD folder for fond memories.
for me, it's about organization. |
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| | alikl | Jan 15, 11:17pm | | @digits - you have similar to jdmeieronline's approach but it seems like it is half way. So far i see how you filter emails. Now that you distiled action emails - something you need to invest time to process it - how do you prioritize? imagine you have the following buckets of emails: 4 customers, 3 online passive income notifications, 3 friends, google alerts, and some more. How do you prioritize time to process it? |
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Sponsor | | digits | Jan 15, 11:32pm | oh you mean i have to actually read the emails? surely you jest. sorry. i go no further than 1 through 4.
well. sometimes i might read them but i have to have spare time. i don't do well with prioritizing time. i always seem to do whatever is in front of me; everything else is tertiary including reading the emails. :)
sorry. this was the best i could do. |
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| | alikl | Jan 16, 8:15am | digits, good feedback. I am actually in research how people handle their tasks pipeline. I see many people have hard times to prioritize. Including me. So i am trying to collect helpful techniques. What i do is creating buckets of emails, each bucket is kind of project to make the emails relative withing the bucket. I pro actively block time for either bucket - the one i decide to invest in, then drill into the bucket of emails and pick most significant - urgent, impactful, etc. al the rest in the bucket gets lower priority
Makes sense or over engieneered? |
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