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Per, are you sure you don't work for corporate America? ;) You use all the tricks we use at major IT companies. In addition to the personal mail I get - probably in the same range as others on this list - I also get hundreds of emails a day for work, and items that I actually have to read and respond to, some with attachments between 1-10MB in size, with multiple threads of conversations with them, multiple people copied, action items, responses to action items, etc. I have nearly a hundred offline folders in Outlook that I quickly move emails to based on category, person, urgency, etc. I am an email pack rat. I manage enough email in a day that would give most people a nervous breakdown. I find it easier to manage individual emails, using some of the methods you site below. And honestly, individual emails are easier for me too, because with digest mode, you have to wade and scan through a bunch of topics you may not even be interested in, whereas with individuals emails, if I find one topic I don't like, I delete all further incoming messages...like you indicate by sorting by subject. Another trick, which many of us power users also use is that we use a preview pane in Outlook. When I click on an email, I can see the first few lines of the body text below it. It allows me to scan very fast. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 4:43 AM Subject: Re: How to reduce the DAILY DIGEST to one post a day > On 24 mar 2007, at 11.01, RICK WALKER wrote: > >> Personally, I just couldn't contend with the volume of mail if I were >> receiving >> individual e-mails. > > > That's funny to hear, because the very same reason - "more efficient > handling of the huge volume" - is why I choose to use only individual > mails from all lists I subscribe to ;-) Hear are some tricks I use: > > - Use filtering of incoming mails into list boxes > - When you are in a mail box, click the column for how you want to sort > the mails. I tend to jump between listing in chronological order and > listing based on subject line > > So if for example a certain thread doesn't interest you, simply order > after subject line, select all of them and hit the delete button. I >know > the Gmail online service works in a similar way, inside a web browser, > but I'm able to do it double as fast on a local mail client where I get > more control over how to set up shortcuts on the computer keys. > > I also set up temporary mail boxes for certain projects I'm working on > and then I set up the filtering to drop incoming mails from important >key > persons into those boxes. After the gig, course or whatever the project > might be, has has been due I take that box out of the local email >client > and archive it. > > Some times I drag a message into a project box because something in the > discussion has a point that somehow relates to that particular project. > Or I may copy it, if I also want to keep it in its original list box. >On > a local mail client with individual messages all these actions are just >a > matter grabbing something with the mouse and dropping it somewhere else. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (CC donationware music releases) > > >