Comments on: 5 Quick E-mail Tips

By: pantrygirl

pantrygirl — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:22:07 +0000

an NRSVP at the end of your message that does not need a response works great too.
I hate getting one word emails like. “ok.” or “thanks.”

Also, if your software allows you to create rules to move your mail to designated folders use it.

That way you can read the mail for your high priority projects first.

By: Online Idea Buzz

Online Idea Buzz — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 03:57:15 +0000

Drowning in email?

It’s depressed to scroll endlessly through your Inbox. Clear it out at the end of each day – delete those messages you that you know you’ll never respond to.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:15:21 +0000

5 great tips.

The different e-mail accounts and the “” are indeed very useful too.

By: Frank Meeuwsen

Frank Meeuwsen — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:52:20 +0000

See http://www.punkey.com/pivot/entry.php?id=1768 for a tip that works great for me!

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:50:27 +0000

I like vFolders in Evolution. Instead of actually moving email to different folders I can keep all of my mailing lists in one folder and have it create a vFolder, which looks like a folder but is actually a search for the criteria specified. I can sort by anything that a filter can be set up for. Then for the high volume mailing lists I have them set to delete after 48 hours. There's no sense in keeping those longer than that. I also have a few separate email accts. - one for email lists, one for signups, a totally personal one, and one thats professional. That way when I'm travelling I don't have to shift through pages of mailing lists to get to the email I need.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:24:21 +0000

I used to try to clean out my inbox often and file all the e-mails. The problem was finding stuff that I needed later. I stopped sorting when I found LookOut for Outlook, then once I switched to Thunderbird Copernic Desktop Search does the job. I just make sure I delete newsletters and other e-mails that really aren’t ever needed again and then just leave the rest. Yeah, my inbox might be massive, but I know that everything is there.

Strange, but it works.

By: mahalie

mahalie — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:41:37 +0000

43 Folders has a good post on this. I think that's where I picked up the Managing Incoming Email report by Mark Hurst. I printed that out at the office and hung it by the copier, it's so good. My life has been vastly improved since implementing it at work and home. Now I just wish that I could use Gmail at work!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:41:24 +0000

I stripped what it thought was tag.

So Subjects should be:

Call Me
Meeting at 12:00
Noon Lunch Cancelled

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:40:14 +0000

A tip for sending. If you are sending a small Call Me, or Meeting at Noon email that doesn’t need opening. Make the subject line:

Call Me
Meeting at 12:00
Noon Lunch Cancelled

saves time from having to open it and see the same thing or nothing in there.

By: Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:25:09 +0000

I’ve been using GMail for while, and designed a simple tool for myself to quickly send a note or thought to myself. A few other liked it, so I expanded on it a bit and it’s now available. It allows you to send an email to yourself, but attach a label to it. For GMail users, it utilizes the + sign feature that GMail supports. For non-GMail users, it adds the label to the end of the messages.

In both cases of course, when you have filters or rules setup, you automatically organize what you send to yourself.

This is useful for people who do not stay logged into their email accounts, for for whatever reason, are not able to login to their email accounts (for example, some businesses prevent access to some web mail email providers).

Check it out at http://www.ewizmo.com

Thanks.

Joe at ewizmo.com