Hi again Prot,
I notice you get rid of archiving mail messages (-inbox) sometime
ago. Why do you take this decision? Do you keep everything valuable in
inbox? How much time? How do you make distinction between an inbox msg
keep for future reference purposes or an important message waiting for
action?
What about mailing lists? Do you prune by date only?
Summarizing, can you illustrate us with your new mail workflow?
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Juanjo Presa
https://nadanix.com
> From: Juanjo Presa <juanjo.presa@nadanix.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 13:25:23 +0100
>
> Hi again Prot,
Hello Juanjo,
> I notice you get rid of archiving mail messages (-inbox) sometime
> ago. Why do you take this decision? Do you keep everything valuable in
> inbox? How much time? How do you make distinction between an inbox msg
> keep for future reference purposes or an important message waiting for
> action?
>
> What about mailing lists? Do you prune by date only?
>
> Summarizing, can you illustrate us with your new mail workflow?
I keep all messages in the inbox. The mailing lists are filtered out of
it. I don't keep all messages. For example, I periodically delete
items from the emacs-devel I am subscribed to.
I don't worry about tagging all items in my inbox, as I prefer to search
when I need something.
If I need to keep note of an email, I do it with Org capture: either I
create a TODO task which will appear on the Org agenda, or I write a
note with Denote. When I use Org capture this way, I have my templates
automatically insert a link to the given message. So I can also find
exactly what I need.
More generally, I never made good use of email archives and folders.
They would either get too complex, or end up as a flat list. I prefer a
flat list and thought it would not be a problem to keep everything in
the inbox.
However, the reason I removed the command to archive a message/thread is
because I was hitting it on accident and then couldn't find what I was
looking for... Awkward, I know.
All the best,
Prot
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