![]() famously disdainful notes tacked to my mirror near the end. “Folding dirty clothes again? You are sick.” was one of her. It really bothered her I was so organized and she rebelled against it. I guess the nickname “Mr Anal” from my first wife (American) says it all. This incudes all of my work and obligations as well as noting tasks and events in my paper notebook. I had a strict Chinese upbringing and as long as I can remember I have organized everything around me. ![]() As so often Google has all of this in the backend but only gives me a plaything at the frontend. SPAMSIEVE FOR AIRMAIL 3 PDFIf I want a folder containing all emails received from a certain address that have a PDF attached I want to get this as an endless list. I want to have a folder/tag that lists all mails that meet half a dozen of criteria. I just hate that.Īlso I want complex saved searches. If a folder or whatever has 20218 mails I want to be able to scroll through them instead of clicking and waiting page for page. My main complain is that it has pages of 100 mails to page trough. In fact Gmail is one of the very few clients that is somewhat progressive with email. Gmail is by far not the worst client these days. (I've had one brief period of using corporate outlook. This helps me keep email response latency down, which is important since my workflow essentially treats my inbox as a work queue.Īs context, I come in on a typical day and have ~20 emails to go through. The gmail tab is pinned on my browser, so I can keep an eye on the notification dot. If I see something every day and I keep clicking through it, then I go and make a filter. If it's not, I just click through it to mark as read. The inbox side-panel is a to-do list if it's important, I read and process it (mark as unread if I need to come back to it). Mind you now I am working for myself my email account is a bit lonely haha.Īs someone who's under 25, having a distinct desktop mail client sounds as archaic to me as having a distinct desktop pdf viewer ![]() SPAMSIEVE FOR AIRMAIL 3 FULLThe worst thing is 'doing email' can feel like your full time job but most of the time you're not really doing anything productive. This sort of email culture is fairly manageable when you're in the office 9-5, a headache & additional pressure if you're travelling for a few days, and a depressing nightmare to come back from holiday to. Of course whenever you don't know a certain fact, event etc the comment is always "I emailed you about it!" Even with mailbox grouping it just drove me insane there was so much extraneous irrelevant crap to skim read and filter out. At my last company the culture was to CC everyone, on everything, then reply all forever. It's definitely worse at bigger companies & if you work in international teams etc. At my current job I get an average of maybe 4 or 5 emails per day and 90% of them are not specific to me (all-company emails from HR, for example). So the real question is, why are people getting so many emails? Even when I worked in a corporate environment and I was the technical lead for an entire large website, I never got more than 20-30 emails per day. ![]()
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