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Taming Your Inbox. A New Way To Inbox Zero

Posted by DaneMorgan • 9/28/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: clutter, email, inbox zero, information, overload

So I just got into the private beta for a new service that promises to give you the one tool you need to get your email inbox system tamed and handled once and for all.

And It really will. This is awesome. It's something I tried to do for myself, but my implementation simply wasn't convenient or quick enough and I stopped using it. This is instant and intuitive.

Anyhow, I posted about the service, which is still in private beta, and Joshua Baer stopped by my blog, set up twenty five invites for my blog readers and posted the URl in the comments.

If you have way too much email in your inbox and are struggling to sort , filter and deal with all of it, drop everything and go get one of these invites before they are gone!

danemorgan.com/blog/blogging/so-much-more-just-another-inbox

And while we are here....

What are your strategies for managing your inbox?

User Comments

9/28/08

Anok

I'm on my way over!

My strategy is the ignore feature. You know, I just ignore my inbox completely, save for the few I like to read.

It needs taming BADLY.

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9/28/08

Anok

OK, so I'm all signed up - now, my question is, can you forward your e mails from other accounts into appropriate folders?

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9/28/08

DaneMorgan

No, what you want to do is log into your accounts and give each of them their own new email address like this

AccountName@yoursubdomain.otherinbox.com

for instance twitter@anoksdomain.otherinbox and all mail from twitter goes there. blogcatalog@anoksdomain.otherinbox.com and all BC emails go there. amazon@anoksdomain.otherinbox.com and all Amazon emails go there.

The beauty is that you create these by simply typing them in to your account pages at the different services you use. The box is just created when the mail comes in (and deleted again when cleared). So there is no clutter!

Then the system will create a box for email from that account when it comes in. You check it a couple times a day or week or whatever and clear it in batches.

Meanwhile, your real inbox is nice and uncluttered with just email from REAL people that you want to pay closer, more frequent attention to. And it stays at or near inbox zero.

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1. 9/28/08
  
  Anok
  
  Ah, OK so I should wake up early tomorrow, and change my e mail addresses for 90% of the crap I receive that I like to read, via e mail, but don't want cluttering up my e mail inbox.
  
  Sweet.
2. 9/28/08
  
  DaneMorgan
  
  Exactly. It'll take a little time to convert over, but after that the time you save from not having to filter what you are ignoring, putting off, need to read, need to act on... It should be HUGE if you are anything like me.
3. 9/28/08
  
  Anok
  
  Yes! Thanks, Dane.
9/28/08

MadameX

Taming?

Nah, I'm good.

4,318 is a perfectly reasonable number of pieces of mail to keep in your inbox, right?

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1. 9/28/08
  
  DaneMorgan
  
  That sounds incredibly tame to me. I have 7682 and that's just the unread count....
  
  and just the main address....
2. 9/28/08
  
  Anok
  
  Pffft 4,318 just gettin warmed up in my inbox
  
  Yeah I'm well over 6,000 in unread new messages - not including the spam/bulk folder, and the multitude of folders filled to the brim with messages I haven't gotten to yet.
  
  And that's just ONE account.
9/28/08

roxxymetal

This sounds interesting. My inbox is completely out of control!! I'll have to check this out!

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