if you’ve never explored what you can do with email software, you should. Most programs have ways to let you filter or sort mail. I have a ton of filters or, as the Mac Mail software calls them, “rules” set up. Some do mundane things like put mail from a quilt guild into its own folder.
I have a “smart mailbox” that dynamically shows me mail that meets two criteria: it must have arrived today and must not be read. At midnight, and as I read it, the mail is cleared from that smart mailbox having never left the inbox it had originally arrived in. I have another smart mailbox that shows me just mail from family members.
The best part of filtering mail is that you can decide “I never want to read another email about this particular topic. Or from this particular person. Or “all these things are spam and even if they get through gmail they should go to trash.”
What am I currently not reading? Anything about computer viruses, being hacked or iPads. That’s because two different email lists I subscribe to spend, at times, more discussing those topics than their original purpose. BLam! Goes to trash! Crossposting to both lists? Not to my inbox you don’t – trash!
I do glance over the trash box before emptying it, just to make sure nothing unintended has ended up there but mostly I just smile as I hit “empty trash”.
Oh the geeky power of it all…
