On 8/1/13 7:19 PM +0900, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Oh, well. It sounded like you did have several instances open, judging by your statement about several desktops.
Nah. I use each desktop as a sort of "workflow theme". Console and file system access on desktop 1, browsers and e-mail on 2, programming and localization work on 3, iTunes on 4, "office suites" on 5 and client billing/timekeeping on 6.
Another thing you might do when you're focusing on an urgent project is to disable automatic mail retrieval for unrelated accounts. Then when
Unfortunately, much of my workday is reactive. I generally don't have the luxury of tuning out till coming up for air. Even when I'm programming for one project, I'm still having to monitor for client contacts on various accounts in different business domains.
you come up for air, do CTRL-SHIFT-D (or the Mac equivalent) to get mail for all accounts at once (this assumes one instance of SM with all your accounts under the same profile).
Coming up for air means a coffee or -- on a good day -- sneaking away for a swim. LOL
Not sure how your display looks, but on mine, the name of any account (when collapsed) or folder (when the account is expanded) that contains unread messages is bolded, and depending on display parameters, may also show the number of unread messages to the right of the folder name. So I can see at a glance where the unread messages are and click on the highest-priority folders first.
Sure, I can, too, but it's still a waste of time to have to flip over to my mail desktop and then scroll down through 8 accounts to see which got mail and which didn't.
Filters really come in handy here. I don't just let all my new mail end up in the various inboxes. I have nearly a hundred filters that route them to the right boxes so I can see at a glance (for example) if I have mail from ABC Corp whose job I'm working on. Like yourself, I get several hundred messages a day, and I couldn't survive otherwise.
I'm just the opposite. I leave all unprocessed mail in each account's respective inbox. Things don't get moved to their associated folders until they've been read and prioritized; otherwise, stuff just falls through the cracks. My inboxes are always empty at the end of a day. Moving stuff automagically dooms me to leaving stuff unread that I should have at least given a cursory glance. :)
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