In fact much of my day is spent dealing with mail. It comes at me from all directions, and can get to be too much. I can't "just check" my mail - it will always trigger some sort of action (writing another mail, usually). I know this annoys Chloe, too, something must be done! So I've decided to put some of Merlin's ideas into action.
First I deleted all the mails from various lists I'm on. They're archived at CERN so if I need to I can trawl them online, but I don't think I ever will. It was quite satisfying deleting over 6000 mails that were of no real direct relevance to me.
Next I created two DMZ regions in my CERN and Bristol mail accounts, and put all the mails in those two inboxes into them. My inbox is now slimline. One day I'll sort through all those mails (or just delete them if I don't go into the DMZ's much in the next month or so).
Third I've taken it on myself to delete any mail that comes my way once the appropriate action has been taken. I've also set the email check time to 30mins instead of 5. I might up that to an hour depending on how things go... If it's urgent people can still get me on IM (though maybe that will change in the future...).
Next is to set up the Mail Act-On rules and see how they go. I'm also going to write a little automator script to take an email and make it an entry in iCal.
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