Comments on: Organising Your Inbox http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/ Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-99878 Andy Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:03 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-99878 I am currently in the process of reorganizing my mailboxes. I have read some info on the subject and about the "gmail way of doing things". Your article helpt me put some new light on the subject. Using the inbox as a sent folder, is a great idea. I will add those options to my muttrc. Thanks for the info. I am currently in the process of reorganizing my mailboxes. I have read some info on the subject and about the “gmail way of doing things”. Your article helpt me put some new light on the subject.
Using the inbox as a sent folder, is a great idea. I will add those options to my muttrc.
Thanks for the info.

]]> By: fjellstad.org » Organizing Your Email http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-87243 fjellstad.org » Organizing Your Email Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:24:48 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-87243 [...] summer I read two brilliant (related) posts on email handling: one from Scott Yang and the other one from Aristotle Pagaltzis. Basically, stop filing your email. Just archive [...] [...] summer I read two brilliant (related) posts on email handling: one from Scott Yang and the other one from Aristotle Pagaltzis. Basically, stop filing your email. Just archive [...]

]]> By: coderpunk http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-74612 coderpunk Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:04:48 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-74612 I've been looking for a better way to manage mail in Thunderbird, and I think this method may do the trick, although I have seen references to problems making Sent the same as Inbox. Maybe setting a Bcc to yourself would work better? I think the search not sort method is valid for non-mailing list conversations. I'm going to give this a try, but keep my mailing list sort rules in place. I'll reduce all my other folders down to inbox an archive and see how it goes. .cp I’ve been looking for a better way to manage mail in Thunderbird, and I think this method may do the trick, although I have seen references to problems making Sent the same as Inbox. Maybe setting a Bcc to yourself would work better?

I think the search not sort method is valid for non-mailing list conversations. I’m going to give this a try, but keep my mailing list sort rules in place. I’ll reduce all my other folders down to inbox an archive and see how it goes.

.cp

]]> By: Tanushree http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-40123 Tanushree Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:36:59 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-40123 Brilliant! I had been looking for a way to get all my work mails sorted by conversation thread a la GMAIL, but the sent mails were always the road block. This idea never struck me! Thanks a lot! Brilliant! I had been looking for a way to get all my work mails sorted by conversation thread a la GMAIL, but the sent mails were always the road block. This idea never struck me! Thanks a lot!

]]> By: scotty http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34360 scotty Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:01:49 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34360 Aristotle, Yes. Exactly. Thanks for your article and it certainly makes more sense when I manage and archive emails. The MUA paradigm of the decades has always been Inbox/Sent/Trash etc, and it's reflected on most desktop clients as well as web mails. I think it is pretty much based on the classic inbox/outbox filing drawers, but it does not necessarily make most sense when organising emails. Brandon, I think it should check "In-Reply-To" header in the email to work out the best way to present the thread. Of course the links might break when In-Reply-To refers to a message ID that you don't have, then it should fall back on Subject line matching. So far it works well for me. As of storage -- yes. If you have gigabytes of storage, it makes sense to archive everything. I guess my bad habit of deleting-all-unnecessary came when an average shell account only had 3Mb quota... Aristotle,

Yes. Exactly. Thanks for your article and it certainly makes more sense when I manage and archive emails. The MUA paradigm of the decades has always been Inbox/Sent/Trash etc, and it’s reflected on most desktop clients as well as web mails. I think it is pretty much based on the classic inbox/outbox filing drawers, but it does not necessarily make most sense when organising emails.

Brandon,

I think it should check “In-Reply-To” header in the email to work out the best way to present the thread. Of course the links might break when In-Reply-To refers to a message ID that you don’t have, then it should fall back on Subject line matching.

So far it works well for me.

As of storage — yes. If you have gigabytes of storage, it makes sense to archive everything. I guess my bad habit of deleting-all-unnecessary came when an average shell account only had 3Mb quota…

]]> By: Brandon http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34345 Brandon Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:31:29 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34345 When you have gigabytes of storage (both online and on your HD), why not keep every email that's not classified as junk? Thunderbird's instant "Subject or Sender" filter is enough for me to find most anything quickly. But if I need to, I can do a more advanced search. I guess I find the Inbox/Sent folder dichotomy useful when I'm doing searches. I find the threading mechanism in Thunderbird doesn't work reliably and split up threads when it shouldn't. If there was some additional metadata in email to identify threads reliably, then I'd probably go with the thread view too. When you have gigabytes of storage (both online and on your HD), why not keep every email that’s not classified as junk? Thunderbird’s instant “Subject or Sender” filter is enough for me to find most anything quickly. But if I need to, I can do a more advanced search.

I guess I find the Inbox/Sent folder dichotomy useful when I’m doing searches. I find the threading mechanism in Thunderbird doesn’t work reliably and split up threads when it shouldn’t. If there was some additional metadata in email to identify threads reliably, then I’d probably go with the thread view too.

]]> By: Aristotle Pagaltzis http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34333 Aristotle Pagaltzis Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:15:31 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/#comment-34333 <blockquote>I do not see why all email clients <strong>want to have a Sent folder</strong>!</blockquote> I know, right? After moving to the system I described in that post you linked, I wondered why anyone would ever want to have such a thing. It just makes everything more difficult.

I do not see why all email clients want to have a Sent folder!

I know, right? After moving to the system I described in that post you linked, I wondered why anyone would ever want to have such a thing. It just makes everything more difficult.

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