Comments on: Of Inboxes and Men, Part 2

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:04:03 +0000

Shannon - I like that idea of segregating it by year or quarter.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:59 +0000

I do something similar, but segregate it by year and then 4 subfolders, one for each quarter of the year. I am pretty good about remembering what year something happened, or at least I used to be, but advanced find usually turns up things if I can’t remember the year and or quarter. It also simplifies things when document retention time rolls around. I am kind of like you that I work a lot of various projects and the thought of making new folders every time I took on something else is too overwhelming. I will admit that I don’t clean out my inbox every night, or even every week, it usually turns into a massive drag and drop into the correct quarterly folder once I weed out all the junk emails that I don’t need to keep.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:14:32 +0000

i’ve been moving toward that, but haven’t been able to give up the safety net of 473 folders. I do know from what a few friends have said that it’s helpful if you have a way to tag emails so you can search by keyword. I know there’s an add-on available that does this for Mac’s email client, but I don’t know much more than that. Would love to hear how this works out for you!