This is part 2 of “How I Freed Myself from Mountains of Email“.
After killing off spam and miscellaneous notifications, I did a few more things that are helping me get less email everyday.
Modified Email Rules and Alerts. Incoming mail is now organized based on criteria I set such as the sender (is it a client? relative? affiliate network?) and these criteria help me file email in the proper folders and deal with them there. If, at any given time, I just want to focus on one thing (replying to relatives, greeting clients, or invoicing), I just go to the …read more

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“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” – Marshall McLuhan
Too much email can cause insanity. If you think information overload is restricted to your email server and client, you’re either mistaken or a much freer person than I am. Emails, whether they’re spam or not, take up so much of our time – from checking to reading and the thoughts and worries that linger after reading them.
The truth is, I’ve had enough. …read more