Comments on: Why You Should Adopt a Sparse Inbox Policy

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:20:14 +0000

Wow! A hypocrite who admits he is! Says that Mac users should consider linux, but he himself is an ‘applehater’.

We don’t hate linux. We just don’t like it. Difference.

By: applehater

applehater — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:00:43 +0000

Mac users are like diodes.they can only go one way.they cant think about Linux .the better option.why is mac users zealots?

By: Azeem

Azeem — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:36:30 +0000

Of course sync means no need to backup but its always great to create local backup copies of your inboxes with Mail

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:54:32 +0000

^^ Backing up? If you use Gmail or MobileMe, the IMAP syncing means you never have to backup. Of course Time Machine is backing things up anyway, but still, I’m not bothered.

By: Azeem

Azeem — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:55:00 +0000

I don’t have problems managing email as I don’t get a lot of emails daily.
I find it really painful to create a separate folder for every kind of email thats coming to my inbox. The best way is to create 2-3 folder for important emails and leave the rest to inbox.
Labeling in Gmail does a great job of separating good email from bad ones.
The bottom line is backing up email is more important than sorting ( of course if you don’t receive 100s of emails daily ), the last time around I didn’t backup and lost a lot of emails, this time I won’t take chances.

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:40:25 +0000

Actually I have a bunch of emails in my inbox (around 1k I think). Every once in a while when the scrollbar gets a little too small I move messages. However, with conversations enabled (Look in related posts above) the mailbox has become very manageable. I would feel weird if there were less than a 100 messages in my inbox.

Of course, I think Gmail has spoilt us a bit with the “never delete a message”. There’s a lot of useless stuff that comes through nowadays that doesn’t need to be retained and needs to be deleted ASAP. I try and hound those down during my cleanup routines.