Comments on: How to choose: Email, voice mail, or carrier pigeon? http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-choose-email-voice-mail-or-carrier-pigeon/ Thoughts on life, liberty, and information technology Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:06:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: brian http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-choose-email-voice-mail-or-carrier-pigeon/#comment-175 brian Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:40:44 +0000 http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-choose-email-voice-mail-or-carrier-pigeon/#comment-175 I use GMail for everything. Unread flags and stars and labels are the most wondrous creations. Makes Outlook look like a poorly thought out toy. ;) I use GMail for everything. Unread flags and stars and labels are the most wondrous creations. Makes Outlook look like a poorly thought out toy. ;)

]]> By: Chris Gonyea http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-choose-email-voice-mail-or-carrier-pigeon/#comment-168 Chris Gonyea Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:52:39 +0000 http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-choose-email-voice-mail-or-carrier-pigeon/#comment-168 That is what I do to keep my inbox clean. I have this structure: Inbox -->Archive -->Receipts -->A couple of project folders Everything that I think I will need at some point, I shove in the archive folder (or if it is directly related to a project I am working on I put in that folder, or a online receipt goes in the receipt folder). Then I rely on the all mighty magical technology called search (specifically Spotlight since I am a Mac user, but Google Desktop or any other desktop search works too) to find stuff in my archive folder. Works slick and is much less stressful when my inbox has 2 messages in it instead of 1000. That is what I do to keep my inbox clean.

I have this structure:
Inbox
–>Archive
–>Receipts
–>A couple of project folders

Everything that I think I will need at some point, I shove in the archive folder (or if it is directly related to a project I am working on I put in that folder, or a online receipt goes in the receipt folder).

Then I rely on the all mighty magical technology called search (specifically Spotlight since I am a Mac user, but Google Desktop or any other desktop search works too) to find stuff in my archive folder.

Works slick and is much less stressful when my inbox has 2 messages in it instead of 1000.

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