So once upon a time I was great at keeping up with email.
We're talking about, oh, pre-2014.
What changed in 2014? Well, I became an employee.
And my one work email address became two work email addresses. My previous work address then became my personal email address - except it was also a work email address to my contacts of fifteen years.
But I wasn't comfortable checking it at work because, well, I was at work. So I did it on off hours. Except as off hours shrank, I didn't feel like spending off hours checking email.
The last time I did a great purge was February of 2015.
So in 2017, I decided to get ahead of it. Except it multiplied faster.
Yesterday, AOL spoke.
As I was moving some things around, AOL asked, "Do you want to permanently delete this?" And of course I clicked, "No."
That's not what AOL heard.
Momentary panic. And then relief.
So now I'm taking a few minutes each day to sort by keywords stuff I want before it permanently vanishes. But "new mail" is looking lean.
And I like it.
Easy. Manageable.
Finally.
We're talking about, oh, pre-2014.
What changed in 2014? Well, I became an employee.
And my one work email address became two work email addresses. My previous work address then became my personal email address - except it was also a work email address to my contacts of fifteen years.
But I wasn't comfortable checking it at work because, well, I was at work. So I did it on off hours. Except as off hours shrank, I didn't feel like spending off hours checking email.
The last time I did a great purge was February of 2015.
So in 2017, I decided to get ahead of it. Except it multiplied faster.
Yesterday, AOL spoke.
As I was moving some things around, AOL asked, "Do you want to permanently delete this?" And of course I clicked, "No."
That's not what AOL heard.
Momentary panic. And then relief.
So now I'm taking a few minutes each day to sort by keywords stuff I want before it permanently vanishes. But "new mail" is looking lean.
And I like it.
Easy. Manageable.
Finally.
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