Re: How to reduce the DAILY DIGEST to one post a day

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 24 mar 2007, at 11.01, RICK WALKER wrote:

> Personally,  I just couldn't contend with the volume of mail if I  
> were receiving
> individual e-mails.


That's funny to hear, because the very same reason - "more efficient  
handling of the huge volume" - is why I choose to use only individual  
mails from all lists I subscribe to ;-)  Hear are some tricks I use:

- Use filtering of incoming mails into list boxes
- When you are in a mail box, click the column for how you want to  
sort the mails. I tend to jump between listing in chronological order  
and listing based on subject line

So if for example a certain thread doesn't interest you, simply order  
after subject line, select all of them and hit the delete button. I  
know the Gmail online service works in a similar way, inside a web  
browser, but I'm able to do it double as fast on a local mail client  
where I get more control over how to set up shortcuts on the computer  
keys.

I also set up temporary mail boxes for certain projects I'm working  
on and then I set up the filtering to drop incoming mails from  
important key persons into those boxes. After the gig, course or  
whatever the project might be, has has been due I take that box out  
of the local email client and archive it.

Some times I drag a message into a project box because something in  
the discussion has a point that somehow relates to that particular  
project. Or I may copy it, if I also want to keep it in its original  
list box. On a local mail client with individual messages all these  
actions are just a matter grabbing something with the mouse and  
dropping it somewhere else.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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