Email Bankruptcy

Earlier today I caught up on all the emails and phone calls and finally decided to do a very brave thing… email bankruptcy.

Now I am not as brave as Eileen, but nuking mail for me is a very big step. I have email dating back to my elm days (“Back when I was your age we didn’t have a ribon, we had monochrome Sun terminals and cursor interfaces and walked six miles through snow, uphill both ways, yada, yada) and around the turn of the year I switched to annual email. The amount of stuff in my mailbox keeps on growing so when I finally caught up….. I just exported my mail to a PST and restarted Outlook in a new profile. Eileen makes a very good point, tracking back conversations rarely happens and in most cases I just refer to the Desktop Search anyhow. I also took a huge step back from the mailing lists, I’ve made it exceedingly difficult for myself to be in 60 different mailing lists all day long so hopefully that will leave all the extracurricular activities to afterhours moments.

So here’s one to productivity….