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Tue, 22 Jul 2008
E-Mail Cleanup

While this series of articles is Mac-specific and Mail-specific, most of the tips offered can be used with other e-mail clients on other platforms. It is all about productivity. I know people who have no such scheme and are burdened by the guilt (or just stress) of hundreds (or more) unread or "undealtwith" e-mails in their inbox.

As the waiter in the 1971 television advertisement for Alka-Seltzer urges his customer, "Try it, you'll like it." Unlike the customer, trying these suggestions should lessen the need for an antacid.

See

Here are other excellent resources for getting a handle on e-mail. And, as you probably know, handling ths problem is very important. (See the comment in Hi-tech is turning us all into time-wasters, that says, "Even the beeps notifying the arrival of email are said to be causing a 0.5 per cent drop in gross domestic product in the United States, costing the economy $70bn a year.")

So, the additional resource:

Bother are from Merlin Man.

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