Paul B. Gallagher wrote, on 11 Oct 16 04:10:
If I were only getting 20 messages a day, I might try your way. As it
happens, I routinely get over a hundred, sometimes 200, so filtering to
appropriate folders is a great time saver. If messages 3, 28, 47, and 96
relate to the same topic, it's much easier to see all four in the same
folder and read them together than to try to keep several dozen threads
in my head all at the same time as I work through an unsorted inbox.
I also get client requests referring to old jobs, some of them a year or
two old, and I have to be able to find the old correspondence quickly
and easily. I probably have a hundred thousand old messages going back
to the late 90s, and the only way I can cope is with a good filing system.
Yeah, "You can't really understand another person's experience until
you've walked a mile in their shoes" (and, by then, you're a mile away,
and you have their shoes... :-))
I guess that, on average, I must get 50 messages a day, but most of them
are very quickly and easily taken care of every day using an e-mails
folders structure adequate to my needs and SM's spam/junk filters and
Boolean search (which, BTW, is unparalleled, at least for me: I've
never seen any e-mail client with search capabilities even close to
these!); I imagine that, if I got 100-200/day, maybe I'd start using
folder filtering, too...
BTW, I just remembered that I do use folder filtering, but on my e-mail
service (fastmail.fm): Many years ago, I wrote a filtering script so
that e-mails sent to that address would be sent to my SM client, with a
copy in their 'junk' files, and those sent to an alternate address, on
another service, would be automatically retrieved and go to a specific
folder there, keeping the original on that other service -- but it has
been so long that that's all I remember, and probably I wouldn't be able
to even understand that script if I wanted to change it, these days.
Finally, a 'kindred soul': I also keep many messages since the '90s
(starting with a few from CompuServe!), and am only able to do that
because of the aforementioned e-mails folders structure and SM's Boolean
search capabilities. Most people I know delete 99% of their e-mails
soon after reading them (or even before that :-)); besides sometimes
having a need to get back to earlier info and texts, one of my intents
is being able to avoid 'reinventing the wheel': If I already wrote
extensively about something I have to write again today, why not re-use
the previous text, with adequate changes?
--
Thanks beforehand for your attention, and I hope to hear from you soon.
s) Alexander Yudenitsch <[email protected]>
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