manage my e-mail

It’s amazing how much better I feel having cleaned up my work e-mail. It was totally out of control and the fresh start did me good. One excellent suggestion I implemented this week was to use gmail for all of my work listservs. It’s fabulous. I only check it once or twice a day and the only e-mails in my regular inbox are the ones I truly should read right away (i.e. from someone at work). Gmail is great for the lists as it compiles every message with the same subject line, making it easy to read an entire thread. Fabulous. I had no idea. It just looks less daunting that way. And it is less daunting. So, at work, I am freed from the e-mail chains. Personal email is still a little oppressive, but having organized and simplified at work, I at least feel it’s possible to get it under control at home.

Must reign in the e-mail and get it under control so it helps more than it hinders. Right now it’s this huge burden, a real time-sink, every day.

1.Need to set up mailing list accounts on g-mail to unclutter work e-mail inbox.
2. Clear out various inboxes (work + personal)—Be merciless.
3. Set up a viable filing system.
4. Transfer all contact-type information somewhere else (?)—speadsheet, pda, index cards, booklet