Honest Question
Feb. 1st, 2022 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunHow do you organize or keep your emails? For what emails you might still get that is.
Like for shopping and stuff... do you keep the first email? If the company sends you shipping notices do you keep those too? What about the email when the package is received? Do you keep it or trash it? Do you organize them at all - like if you use gmail do you use labels? If you write fanfiction or engage in comments somewhere do you organize those? Keep those? What about DW post comments?
For me, my personal email is gmail. Within it, I use labels and archiving heavily. I also keep mine in compact view, use stars to keep the immediate things like stuff I'm not ready to read: meeting links, patreon or kickstarter updates/downloads. I also have mine stacked by importance so it's Starred / Important / Everything else. I keep all my AO3 kudos/comments emails (IDK why I just like them). I also almost always keep my DW comment response emails (you are immortalized in my email).
Do you just leave all your emails piled in one place without organization and just use the search if you need something? Do you never check your email unless you absolutely need something?
I'm honestly so curious.
Like for shopping and stuff... do you keep the first email? If the company sends you shipping notices do you keep those too? What about the email when the package is received? Do you keep it or trash it? Do you organize them at all - like if you use gmail do you use labels? If you write fanfiction or engage in comments somewhere do you organize those? Keep those? What about DW post comments?
For me, my personal email is gmail. Within it, I use labels and archiving heavily. I also keep mine in compact view, use stars to keep the immediate things like stuff I'm not ready to read: meeting links, patreon or kickstarter updates/downloads. I also have mine stacked by importance so it's Starred / Important / Everything else. I keep all my AO3 kudos/comments emails (IDK why I just like them). I also almost always keep my DW comment response emails (you are immortalized in my email).
Do you just leave all your emails piled in one place without organization and just use the search if you need something? Do you never check your email unless you absolutely need something?
I'm honestly so curious.
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Date: 2022-02-02 11:14 pm (UTC)Starring is for very important e-mails. The most recent example I have is my flight itinerary for my December trip, which was both starred and left in my inbox until about a week after I had come back. I rarely bother to un-star e-mails I archive. Too lazy.
Generally, I leave things in my inbox until they're obsolete. So DW comments don't get archived/deleted until I either reply to them or decide I don't actually feel like replying to them, appointment reminders don't get deleted until after the appointment (usually about four days after, I only sit down with my e-mail account about once a week), or... just stuff that stays until I have the bandwidth to acknowledge it.
This is what my gmail inbox looks like halfway into my weekly acknowledgment. The single starred e-mail is a very swank hotel offering me a discount, holla!!