Apr 14th, 2008I was reading an article in Web Worker Daily today about email inbox management, and the author says she absolutely has to keep her inbox empty. She reads, then archives or deletes every email as it comes in. Her goal is to touch an email once, and only once. This seems like utter paranoia, or at least some form of OCD. I’m all for personal organization when it matters, but when you have a searchable inbox, why does it matter? It would take me far more time to root around dozens (or more) of subfolders to find an email, than to just type in a search term to Google Desktop to pull up the email instantly. It’s why God invented search engines.
Alex Dunne
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Tweets- Monday to-do list: Have car break down - check. Forget gym padlock combo and get lock cut off - check. Waiting for #3...
- Pulled an intercostal muscle (ribcage), and it hurts like crazy, especially when I laugh. No jokes please, unless they're not funny.
- @jsnell Yeah, excellent. Storyline's a bit complicated, so we'll see what the Hollywood meat grinder does to it.
- Just powered thru "Watchmen" -- can't wait for the movie in March now.
- Stood up by a Craigslist buyer tonight. Release the hounds of bad karma!
