Electronic mail
Musings about my experiences with electronic mail (and related issues).
The majority are about my attempt to achieve and maintain the legendary
status of inbox zero
.
Inbox zero, stage one (Essay #189)
Initial notes on my attempt to reach inbox zero.
Inbox zero, stage two (Essay #191)
A day in which Sam archives most of his email, and watches his mail reader screw everything up.
Inbox zero, stage three (Essay #192)
Sam tries to recover, and manages to get most of his email archive moved out of the inbox.
Inbox zero, stage four (Essay #193)
Sam achieves zerosity.
Inbox zero, stage five (Essay #201)
Sam maintains zerosity (or fewosity).
Inbox zero, stage six (Essay #229)
Sam loses to the computer juggernaut
Inbox zero, stage seven (the story resumes) (Musing #267)
Sam resumes his quest.
Inbox zero, stage 8 (email bankruptcy) (Musing #298)
Although the prior resumption was a failure, Sam tries again.
Sam, you are on too many mailing lists
(Essay #254)
Some of the reasons Inbox zero is difficult.
Inbox zero, revisited, phase one (Musing #671)
Starting again, a bit more than a year later.
Inbox zero, revisited, phase two (Musing #673)
Learning to unsubscribe.
Getting confused by email notifications (Musing #683)
Learning to check dates.
Inbox zero, revisited, stage 3 (Musing #689)
Email builds up way too quickly.
Inbox zero, revisited, stage 4 (Musing #694)
I’d be overwhelmed with that many unread messages in my inbox.Yeah, me too.
Inbox zero, revisited, stage five (Musing #703)
Things continue to spiral out of control.