Organize my inbox

I now have 15 emails in one inbox & 17 in the other – the rest are all filed away. Surely this will help me to be better at staying in touch – the emails I mean to reply to will no longer get buried under useless junk. Well, that’s the plan, anyway…

just took a morning and deleted everything i will never need again and shut down an old account that gets nothing but spam. also keeping seperate folders for different people.

wow! it’s really organized now! :)

My hotmail inbox has now been sorted and there are only 95 emails in my netidentity account. By no means perfect filing, but it should be a lot easier to see what needs dealing with, especially when I finish those last 95. Yay!

Once this is done, sort out backing up of emails!

Okay, so I have set up my mail client, and started to organise my mail. On Tuesday, I deleted about 200 mails – probably another few hundred to go. Especially as getting organised has made me realise that some people are sending all their mails to 2 of my addresses, so I have many duplicates. I guess I should email them, and let them know.

I really hope that this is going to help me fulfil one of my other goals – staying in touch with people. At the moment, mails still to be dealt with stay in my inbox, but get lost among other mails. With a proper filing system, this shouldn’t happen.

I have mail in 3 separate places, and I dread to think of how many old messages I must have. I like to keep old emails cos they remind me of plotting and planning for special events, but I really don’t need all the messages from one conversation! It would be great if I could find information when I need it – I think Outlook might be the key to this. And tidying might help me in my goal to stay in touch with people.

So overall this would be a really useful goal to achieve, I just dread to think how long it might take. As it’s fairly mindless work, ideally I would combine it with another activity, but I’m not sure what. If only my gym had PCs attached to the machines – that would be perfect!

I have 300 or 400 messages.
Most of them junk.
It’s a mess.