I have to write a self assessment. You would think it would get easier after having written so many, but the DO NOT WANT remains strong.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Mar 18, 2010 9:05:45 am PDT #17135 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
sarameg - Mar 18, 2010 9:06:13 am PDT #17136 of 30001
I can't have more than something like 150000 messages in a given folder. It's a filesystem limit, not a space issue.
It's not documented anywhere, so I'll let you guess how I learned that.
megan walker - Mar 18, 2010 9:07:35 am PDT #17137 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't use enough space to have to archive things, but my folder system is pretty extensive.
All my advice is from Get-It-Done-Guy. Favorite advice (that I don't totally follow) is for your Out-of-Office message to read that you will not be able to reply to anything sent in your absence and for the sender to resend anything requiring a response. Then delete the entire contents of your inbox upon your return.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2010 9:08:43 am PDT #17138 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Favorite advice (that I don't totally follow) is for your Out-of-Office message to read that you will not be able to reply to anything sent in your absence and for the sender to resend anything requiring a response. Then delete the entire contents of your inbox upon your return.
Man, I wish I could do that. But it's too dependent on other people reading the out-of-office.
-t - Mar 18, 2010 9:09:56 am PDT #17139 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's pretty nifty, but I don't think I could do it. Just, my brain wouldn't let me.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2010 9:10:43 am PDT #17140 of 30001
Other than autofiltering out stuff when I hit the limits, I've decided as long as I've got the space, I'm not going to try to do any more than delete contentless stuff. Because my ridiculous inbox has saved my ass numerous times.
OK, dentist time.
megan walker - Mar 18, 2010 9:13:16 am PDT #17141 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't do the radical deleting, but then I feel I can skim through everything and delete most of it without feeling like I necessarily need to repond.
The first time I did it, I was going through my inbox and was wondering why I had two messages about the same thing from people. And then I realized it was because they had actually followed the instructions!
I can count on one hand the number of times I've even thought "I wish I had that", but except for my abusive, lying author (before I realized what I needed to save or not) it's certainly never been something critical.
I'm a purger by nature. The thought of just having useless stuff lying there unorganized gives me hives.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2010 9:18:21 am PDT #17142 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I could never do that out of office thing. Conversations I'm part of are not going to stop and restart because I miss a day.
Wore my Join The Rebel Alliance Princess Leia shirt to the hospital. Admissions guy liked it.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2010 9:25:10 am PDT #17143 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For some reason the insomnia fairy seems to have moved in, with no plans to move out. Caffeine isn't helping. Neither is the fact that the office is warm.
I keep telling them we need an official afternoon nap time (milk and graham crackers optional),
amych - Mar 18, 2010 9:27:06 am PDT #17144 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Inboxes with 87486329 unread messages terrify me. I use gmail for work (and like that it calls conversations back up, thank you!) and don't ever worry about space, but everything. EVERY. THING. gets labeled and archived once I'm done dealing with it. (err, that's gmail archive, as in "get it out of the inbox".)
My system is similar to Megan's (delete immediately or deal and archive/clean up), but without doing anything with my sent mail; to-be-dealt-with stuff goes to gmail tasks, which automagically links back to the email conversation, so it doesn't get a special label.