GIDG sounds awesome. I want him to come and run my life. Or at least my classroom.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'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.
Kat - Mar 18, 2010 10:10:35 am PDT #17152 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan walker - Mar 18, 2010 10:17:13 am PDT #17153 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
GIDG may like carrots, but Matt likes having recent e-mails with pending issues that he has to constantly refer back to all located in one handy place rather than spread across dozens of nested project folders.
Hence why I basically clean mine out but still keep pending things there. It serves as a complement to my weekly action items list.
I don't implement everything he recommends by far, but his advice has really helped me come up with my own basic system.
Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More: [link]
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2010 10:18:57 am PDT #17154 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I not only keep email for ridiculous amounts of time, but I also import them from one computer to the next, one file format to the next.
But recently I upgraded to the most recent Thunderbird and have yet to figure out where it's stashed everything. So maybe I'll break myself of the habit.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2010 10:22:36 am PDT #17155 of 30001
brillig
I can't get to GIDG because my system blocks streaming media! Stupid filters!
SuziQ - Mar 18, 2010 10:22:37 am PDT #17156 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My goal, for my work e-mail, is to keep the inbox under 50 messages with as few as possible unread. I use the flags and color coding a bunch for outstanding issues. I'm horrible about clearing out my sent mail.
We have limits on how much we can store, but if we move messages to personal files, then we can keep a ton.
Working with gmail for my personal e-mail has been such a different experience. No folders is confusing, but I like being able to star messages and I like having conversations kept together.
Jesse - Mar 18, 2010 10:23:30 am PDT #17157 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, fine. I just filed a bunch of email.
ChiKat - Mar 18, 2010 10:25:38 am PDT #17158 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
People clean out Sent folders? Really? Huh.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2010 10:26:50 am PDT #17159 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If an email still has a pending task associated with it, it stays in the inbox with a due-date flag. Anything I need to keep as a record goes into a subfolder. Everything else is deleted almost immediately.
Vortex - Mar 18, 2010 10:28:02 am PDT #17160 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2010 10:29:57 am PDT #17161 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
People clean out Sent folders? Really? Huh.
Yep. If it's important, I archive it; if it's not, I delete it.