On 3/05/13 9:07 PM, James Harper wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am getting overwhelmed by mail.. As a club comitee member, a >> newsletter editor,parent of kids etc. I am getting sh**loads of mails >> I have problems to process and.. >> >> to find things! >> > Probably not appropriate for a Linux list, but I use Exchange/outlook for my > work email, and the search features are awesome. I can find pretty much > anything in my 4GB mailbox in seconds. I get the same results on gmail. :) > > Unfortunately I don't know of a way to assign arbitrary tags to an email, > although you can assign one or more categories and search on those too. > Alternatively you can edit the received email and add tags to the subject or > something, as long as you can do it in such a way that it's obvious you added > them. Outlook threading is pretty poor as is though, and this might muck it > up more. I can assign labels, most of which I do automatically with filters. :) > > I automatically sort the various mailing lists into their appropriate folder > (and delete mostly after I've read it - it's all archived online anyway) but > everything else goes into the inbox and I just search when I need something. > I used to sort my inbox into folders, but the idea that an email belongs in > one and only one folder is flawed. I do flag email I need to come back to > though. I let the mail build up on the server, just set threads to read if they're not of interest. > > But at the end of the day, short of outright deleting email you know you > won't ever have time to do anything with, no amount of clever sorting and > searching is going to help you work through the important emails in any way > that is significantly faster. Get yourself a PA :) :D
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