doug K: I’ve tried the folders and filter thing but I end up with the same mess–it’s just a bit neater and more dispersed. My problem is not actually processing the email.

My inbox remains empty at the end of each day and my “for Follow-Up” folder has only six things in it.

Life is good!

Some e-mail programs let you create sorting filters that will dump specified e-mail address into specific folders. That allows you to filter the import e-mails into one folder and the crap into one or more others. Then you easily look at the stuff you pre-deemed important (e-mails from fellow bloggers, for example) and the rest of crap only when you feel like it. Use the technology to control the technology!

Doug

conchscooter: Yep. Took a couple years of not deleting things to get there. A lot of mail came my way and bad habits of not handling them, deleting them mostly, brought that on.

And I suppose there was a sick cover your ass thing going on as well—you never know when you might need to prove yourself right by producing an old email. The reality is that I only needed to prove myself right once that I can recall and even then so what.

I’m turning this off now….