Interessant artikel på Salon, der opridser en alternativ tilgangsvinkel til den traditionelle “Zero Email Bounce“-teknik. Siden jeg slettede mine Outlook-foldere for et par år siden har jeg håndteret min egen email på præcis samme måde:
Let’s just get this confession over with: My in box is not empty. At the moment, it contains 16,694 messages. Once, I suppose, my in box must have had a zero message count — maybe back in 1991, when I got my first e-mail account. It has not seen zero since.
Yet I do not struggle to empty my in box. Instead, when I scan new messages, I ruthlessly trash spam or irrelevancies, auto-filter mailing-list messages, and then flag (“label” or tag) any messages that require further response or action. The rest just flow on by after I’ve glanced at them.
My in box is not a desk that must be cleared. It is a river from which I can always easily fish whatever needs my attention. Why try to push the river? Computer storage is cheaper than my time; archiving is easier than deleting. At the end of every year I move the oldest 20,000 or so messages into their own folder. Then I let my in box fill up again. (Admittedly, I don’t use Outlook, which doesn’t always handle fat mailboxes gracefully.)
Med dagens glimrende søgeteknologi (Lookout eller Windows Desktop Search er et godt bud til Outlook 2003, og ellers skulle den indbyggede søgning være blevet bedre i Outlook 2007) er mit liv simpelthen for kort til at bruge tid på at klassificere / arkivere tusindvis af emails om året.
