email, cursed email
Everyone I know is overwhelmed by email. Right now I’m on track to send more than 4000 email messages this year and to receive more than 9000 messages that I save into my database (i.e., leaving out spam or other things that I can delete). I’ve started keeping track of the unprocessed email messages in my inbox. With work, I can get it down below 50, although it easily creeps above 100, or even above 150 if I go away for a day or two (this is after an initial culling of the things I can delete).
Today I mistakenly copy all the ~75 messages in my inbox into storage, which took a while to fix. Interestingly, I ended up with only about 40 messages afterward. I suspect that I won’t miss the missing ones, but we’ll see.
I also listened to an interesting discussion by Getting Things Done guru David Allen on a podcast here: