Reality Upgrade

Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I opened a Yahoo email account. I quickly used it to sign up for every imaginable website, and it quickly go to the point where I would receive several hundred emails a day, most of which blasted right through the wimpy spam filter Yahoo had back then.

When I got one of the first Gmail accounts, I vowed that I would only give out that account name to my close friends, and would therefor avoid spam.

Fast forward to today, and even in that nice pristine Gmail account, I get easily 10-20 emails a day, all of which are to some degree important. For instance, I can’t very well block all emails from Amazon, or I might not get the confirmation email when I buy something.

My email box was quickly filling up, and I was not sure what to do about it. I tried using filters to sort mail into individual folders, but became excessive quickly.

It was then that I found this great article about email organization from Lifehacker. I put it into place, and my email box is once again a pristine space where the only emails are ones I haven’t read yet.

So check it out, maybe it will help you as much as it did me.

Yes, email filters can take a little time to set up, but by god is that time worth it in the long run.

This list of tips from Lifehacker can be used as a checklist of sorts to buff up your email filtering.

So take a look, spend some time setting up good filters, and give your Blackberry a break.