For those of you who sometimes have problems managing email, it can seem like you spend more time doing less work. Below are a number of resources for various aspects of managing email, from getting your own inbox under control, to making sure other people respond to you emails.
My own system involves:
- Mozilla Thunderbird as the email program,
- three filters:
- One to gray out anything not addressed to me
- Two to send email from two distribution lists (Teachers of Psychology, Tomorrow's Professor) immediately into their own folder (I can catch up once a week)
- When I send a message, it is bcc'ed to my gmail account, so I have an easily searchable archive of what I have sent.
- UVA's greylisting service
Two guides for getting your inbox under control:
http://www.43folders.com/izero/
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/getting-to-done/getting-to-done-communication-a-guide-to-email-triage-156948.php
Email overload (lots of information about handling email)
http://itzy.wordpress.com/
like: how to keep track of overdue responses:
http://itzy.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/how-to-keep-track-of-overdue-responses/#more-15
"Googling" your emails
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000168.html
Color code messages that are addressed to you
For thunderbird
http://carl.evankovich.com/2006/03/02/color-code-email-messages/
For outlook
http://itzy.wordpress.com/2005/12/27/how-to-color-code-your-messages/
