Inbox -10

[azurelunatic]

Yesterday I had the singular experience of watching my whole inbox disappear before my eyes, then vanish from the trash. IT accepted my hypothesis of a stuck delete key. They said they'd get back to me.

Today I learned that if you're into Inbox Zero, warn the nice tech who will be restoring your box. Otherwise Tythey may freak that they could not get it all back.

Sorry, dude.

Tomorrow early. Commencing horizontal hallucinations.

Comments

[niqaeli]

Hahahaha, whoops. Yay for recovery, though?

[azurelunatic]

Yay indeed for recovery. He managed to get back all the messages I'd deleted since the beginning of time, which was about 35, and of those 35, I think only 5 had actually been deleted at the critical moment. He was sort of terrified because he was thinking that was totally not right, but I tend to stuff things in folders (I keep an "Archived" folder instead of deleting stuff unless I *know* it's never going to be needed again, and I have an intricate tagging system) and recently my Overlady has been advocating the joys of Inbox Zero, so I decided to give that a go at work.

[wibbble]

I've been trying inbox zero for years and just can't keep it up - eventually my inbox ends up being a 'to-do' list again. (Right now: inbox 31)

Do you/Overlady have advice on avoiding it?

[azurelunatic]

I haven't tried in my personal life yet, but right now my work email box structure looks like:

Inbox: Things I haven't sorted.
Archived: Things I have dealt with completely that don't need to be deleted any time soon.
To-Do: Things I have to do, and probably immediately.
To-Do/Soon: Things I have to do, but not until at least tomorrow.
To-Do/Later: Things I have to do, but either not until next week or else after I finish the other stuff.

I haven't had this in place long enough for it to break, but it's going to depend on me going through the "Soon" and "Later" regularly and bumping things into their proper time-dependent categories.

[wibbble]

Part of my problem might be that I just have an inbox, and all my work stuff (both employer and contract) and personal stuff gets mixed in.

Hmm.

[owl]

I like the idea of inbox zero, but I'd have to do something with the 2000 or so emails in my work inbox at the minute.

[azurelunatic]

I think I may only have been successful due to the fact that I've only been in this position for a few months.

[cleverthylacine]

I do that too, and it freaks my boss out, he thinks email takes years and years.

[jecook]

... I need to try that at work- Although with all the rules I've got in place, my pack-rat tendancies, and very little idle time during my working hours, I tend to not delete much of anything.

Strangly enough, mine's also not the largest mailbox in the exchange cluster- most of the crap I have is text alerts from various monitoring systems.

Outlook/you Exchange mailbox- IT'S NOT A FILE CABINET. :D :D