In With the New E-Mail, Out With the Old |
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By Sam Diaz Washington Post Staff Writer
It's only been a week since the calendar turned the corner into 2006,
The digital music and digital photo files were fairly easy -- photo
The biggest challenge, the one that I'm finding is taking a lot of
And, to intensify the flood of mail, I subscribe to a half-dozen or so
Now I find myself wrestling with two impulses: The need for some sort
DELETE
OR ARCHIVE. It sounds simple enough, but just sorting through the
No matter if you read mail over Yahoo, GMail or Hotmail, or if you
That's where I started. Click on the heading and start searching for
If you're using Outlook, select a group of similar e-mails and press the
I have cleared hundreds of e-mails in one shot by doing this.
If you really can't fathom the idea of deleting hundreds of e-mails,
Archiving, also known as exporting in some programs, really isn't that
Whenever you need to search for a particular e-mail from 2004, for
FILTERS AND FOLDERS. Regardless of what program you use to get e-mail,
My inbox will no longer be cluttered by them, they'll be easy to find
Sure, now I have more folders to sort through during the day, but the
FORWARD THOSE E-MAILS. I realize that the last thing you need is
Every e-mail that comes into my inbox, or filtered subfolders, is
Here's the trick: Set up your primary account to forward a copy of the
It's worth noting that none of these tricks is new, but none will cost
Like losing weight or quitting smoking, this e-mail organization
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