Hi Steve,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, Steve Litt wrote:
Xavier Maillard said on Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:02:27 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, Simon Harrison wrote:
Today, I have a different approach which I find works really well for
me: Multiple mailboxes
I see but what's the purpose of storing mails.
Yesterday I needed to know how long I'd been doing business with a
specific customer, so I went back in my emails and found the earliest
correspondence with them, which was 2007. Thanks to my saving most
non-spam emails, I can get back in touch with people I haven't spoken
to in years. I'm a member of over 20 Linux User Groups, with each group
having its own folder, so I can look back and see various things. By
storing emails from my friends, I can look back and see what we were
talking about a few months ago. Deleting all my email, or even most of
my email, would completely uproot the way I conduct my business and
personal life.
Got it. I do it quite differently. Each time I am interacting with people,
I just update his "file" with that infos. Once again, that's my approach
to doing mails right now. Before that I would happily let the mail inside
my INBOX (the client file update would have been updated the same way
though)
In 30 years, I can count on the fingers on my two hands the number of
times I needed to search/access an archived message, making the whole
purpose of storing/archiveing pretty unnecessary.
Inbox zero is for me to regain control of my mailbox with good and
simple habits.
You and I have very different workflow patterns.
Exactly. The most important thing is to do what works for us.
--
Xavier
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