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So, after years of keeping nearly EVERY work email I receive, in my Inbox, I'm trying to now go the route of keeping nothing in my Inbox. All unnecessary mail gets deleted & anything I want to hold onto, gets placed into a folder.
I feel my folder setup is a little messy though, & just looking for suggestions to see if there's a better way I can set them up. There are times I need to go back to an old email & need to shuffle through a few folders to find which folder category I filed the email under.
I basically have a folder for each dept in my company, & then for my IT dept, I have sub folders setup for each application our department works on & maintains. Plus add'l folders for general IT emails & stuff & another separate one for the ticket requests we have come in from around the company.
Anyone have an email folder structure that they like & they're happy with?
Thanks
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Inbox.
ProjectX.
ProjectY.
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Bugs.
Trashcan.
Sent.
I have rules to move emails to the project and bugs folders; everything else that stays in the inbox will be manually filtered.
Most emails end up in the trash .
I'd rather be phishing!
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Simples, at 4:55pm on a Friday, CTRL+A then DEL 
veni bibi saltavi
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Print the important ones, delete everything else. If you need to respond to a printed one, scan it.
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You left out renting storage area for all that paper that accumulated.
And - oh yeah - filing them, too. And looking through those files, which is somehow easier than email based filing?
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Hence the JOKE icon on my response.
Must be a Packers or Steelers fan.
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What's a packer steeler?
MarkTJohnson wrote: Hence the JOKE icon on my response.
Real reply: ooops! Maybe you can change the icon?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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rent storage space?
shred it, then take it down to the recycling depot.
(Depending where you live may even get a few cent's back for doing it - if nothing else can feel good about saving some trees.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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But now I cannot open attachment from my printed email.. Give me code please
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Goalie35 wrote: So, after years of keeping nearly EVERY work email I receive, in my Inbox, I'm trying to now go the route of keeping nothing in my Inbox.
Checking your bio, I observe:
Member since Thu 21 Apr 2005
(11 years, 9 months)
And all that comes to mind is . . . really ?
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Lol. No, I don't have over 11 years of emails in my Inbox, if that's what you were referring to. I'm not THAT bad 
I used to move my Inbox to an archive roughly every 6 months, labeled by the month & year it was archived, to reduce the inbox size (but I did tend to keep nearly all emails, out of fear of losing an email I may needed to reference later). Plus, these 11 years have spanned over several jobs, so I only had about an average of 3 - 4 years of archived emails at any given time.
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I have about 30 email addresses, and get a lot of spam in the important ones. The most successful strategy that I have used for this and general organization is to create a folder for just about every type of message that I might receive, and create filters that send each message to the folder of interest (including spam). What is left in my "In" box is about 10% spam, which is either dispatched, manually filtered, or yet another filter gets created for it. If a message in a folder has not yet been handled properly, I keep it marked as "unread". The folders showing 'unread mail' comprise my "attention still required" list. There is still some manual processing, for example messages from myself, or a co-worker that has a kid on my kid's soccer team, but it works out.
I use this technique for home and work.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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How do you organize your work emails?
Poorly, despite all my best efforts.
I use Outlook. The scheme I've adopted over the last decade was to immediately delete anything that is clearly useless. If I can't make up my mind instantaneously, I keep it. Anything that is at least 6 months old (inbox, sent items) gets moved into a separate PST file named after the previous year (I do this purge twice a year, end of June and end of December). The older PST files aren't loaded, so Outlook still starts pretty fast.
On the few occasions where I need to search for something older than 6 months, I mount the file(s) for which I think the date range makes sense and search from there...then unmounts everything when I'm done. It's far from ideal, but it's an ok compromise between only keeping around recent/relevant things, and still having a full archive if I do need it.
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I use Outlook. Separate folders for each product line. A folder each for internal and personal stuff, plus one for my new boss. I manually sort things into the folders after they've been dealt with.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hey, if you can't create a logical directory structure, don't come to me asking to manage any projects.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I haven't bothered with anything at my new job, but the most thought I put into when doing it at my old job was to figure out what to name the folder that announcements from the C*O's went into: At the time it was Pravda; in retrospect Isvestia Nyet Pravda would've been a more appropriate fit; which is why that place is my old job...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wanted to reach some understanding about a few lines of code, and the one who wrote it is out of reach for now... So I wanted to see the date it was added/modified, to check in our bug tracking system if there is something related...
So I asked VS to annotate it...
Exactly before the block I interested in there are two lines I just added (10 minutes before), but VS annotated it to 06/03/2011...
How wonderful, now I can trust every date it shows...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Look what happened last time. That is why I have my own supply of brain fizz sat on my desk; don't trust them office admin.
veni bibi saltavi
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I'm immune. I drink coffee only if I must and then it usually is 95% milk.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'm also immune: I rarely drink milk, and when I do it's usually 95% coffee...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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it is 100% coffee for me. No milk and sugar allowed (in my body...)
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I'm not sure, but could it be that immune means something different when you live on an island?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wales is not an island, despite numerous efforts to tow it out to sea and sink it with naval gunfire.
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Look what happened when you tried it with Ireland! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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