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.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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.
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
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.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2010 10:30:05 am PDT #17162 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
No folders is confusing
Firefox and Chrome both support the Folders4Gmail extension.
amych - Mar 18, 2010 10:31:26 am PDT #17163 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
People clean out Sent folders?
I used to when I had 100MB of mail storage, back in the dark ages of 3 weeks ago (whence the fact that my entire department started unofficially forwarding everything to gmail.)
brenda m - Mar 18, 2010 10:32:24 am PDT #17164 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'll move stuff to a sent folder if I want a record on when and to who I sent something, or of the version I sent them. Usually submissions to a client. Otherwise I don't bother with it. But I'm annoyed that our default is now that anything over 30 days gets deleted - being able to grab stuff from there has come in handy any number of occasions.
I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.
God, never. I get twitchy at the little envelope indicator, or the light on the BB.
meara - Mar 18, 2010 10:36:49 am PDT #17165 of 30001
I try to keep my inbox in check, but only periodically do. At which point I go through and delete things I should've, and file everything else in folders, and leave the truly pending stuff in my inbox (I never get to inbox zero), mostly down to about inbox 50. What I DON"T do, and know i SHOULD, is go through my sent mail. That's just a big mess.
ChiKat - Mar 18, 2010 10:39:13 am PDT #17166 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?
Granted, I don't have a high volume of email, so I guess that plays a big part. But I don't even think about my Sent folder.
JZ - Mar 18, 2010 10:42:22 am PDT #17167 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks to all of you, I just categorized, moved and/or deleted close to 1000 emails from my inbox and sent, deleted and junk folders. That still leaves me with a 2100 message, 135 unread inbox, but that's about as good as I've ever been. Time for lunch.
Okay, not really. Time to run home to collect all the items I forgot while dealing with Matilda's early morning epic meltdown and deliver them to their recipients before we get slapped with another epic bill (weird school photo setup, where you get a gigantic envelope crammed with pictures and have 3 weeks to review them, then must return everything you don't want to pay for. DO NOT LIKE. Wanna just check boxes, pay for what we want up front, and not have to worry about taking it all home and bringing it all back again.).
But after that...lunch.
flea - Mar 18, 2010 10:42:40 am PDT #17168 of 30001
information libertarian
I have only 47.68 MB of storage in my work email. I clean out all the damn time, by necessity as much as anything. We are supposed to move to a newer system next summer.
I delete a lot. I keep CYA and things I'll forget. I have 20-40 "in progress" emails in my inbox at any given time (the oldest of which dates back 15 months now, but I'm not emotionally ready to order business cards yet!)