A keen problem solver, whether it's related to people, processes or tools. Currently being excited by integration - the whole is more than the sum of its parts, particularly in a complex system.
A suggestion for those who can get inbox build-up/hoarding like me:
At a suitable interval such as the start of the month, just delete everything older than a certain date. Obviously this isn't okay for everyone to do, but for me at least, if something is older than a couple of weeks and no one has screamed, there's a good chance it no longer matters or isn't high enough priority to be worth the build up. If it is important and when it becomes a priority, I'm sure people will let you know with more than an email.
This may also be part of my secret plan to encourage people to contact me via a more conversational, transparent means (slack, teams) or an actual work ticket on the kanban. Email is often a terrible way of communicating I find - should be limited to one-to-many announcements or medium sized chunks of information that may be hard to represent in a chat client. Curious what others think.
Learn something new every day.
- I am a senior software engineer working in industry, teaching and writing on software design, SOLID principles, DDD and TDD.
Location
Buenos Aires
Education
Computer Science Degree at Universidad de Buenos Aires
A keen problem solver, whether it's related to people, processes or tools. Currently being excited by integration - the whole is more than the sum of its parts, particularly in a complex system.
Ah yes, I should've been clearer. The way I have it set in my email program (because my work uses outlook) is that only unread messages appear in my main inbox, and I have to explicitly mark them as read - so a little like archiving in modern web email clients. Except it eliminates this idea that the read state matters if you haven't dealt with it and it's still kicking around your inbox.
If space is a problem you can always delete big attachments before you start deleting emails.
Learn something new every day.
- I am a senior software engineer working in industry, teaching and writing on software design, SOLID principles, DDD and TDD.
Location
Buenos Aires
Education
Computer Science Degree at Universidad de Buenos Aires
A keen problem solver, whether it's related to people, processes or tools. Currently being excited by integration - the whole is more than the sum of its parts, particularly in a complex system.
A suggestion for those who can get inbox build-up/hoarding like me:
At a suitable interval such as the start of the month, just delete everything older than a certain date. Obviously this isn't okay for everyone to do, but for me at least, if something is older than a couple of weeks and no one has screamed, there's a good chance it no longer matters or isn't high enough priority to be worth the build up. If it is important and when it becomes a priority, I'm sure people will let you know with more than an email.
This may also be part of my secret plan to encourage people to contact me via a more conversational, transparent means (slack, teams) or an actual work ticket on the kanban. Email is often a terrible way of communicating I find - should be limited to one-to-many announcements or medium sized chunks of information that may be hard to represent in a chat client. Curious what others think.
Great tip
I’d change delete to archive
Ah yes, I should've been clearer. The way I have it set in my email program (because my work uses outlook) is that only unread messages appear in my main inbox, and I have to explicitly mark them as read - so a little like archiving in modern web email clients. Except it eliminates this idea that the read state matters if you haven't dealt with it and it's still kicking around your inbox.
If space is a problem you can always delete big attachments before you start deleting emails.
We are in 2020. If space is a problem get another provider :)
I used to send mails in the early 90s and then space WAS indeed a problem on local servers with 10Â MB HD. Not anymore!
Haha, I'll make sure to forward your comment to our IT department ;).