Somewhere in the past few weeks I seem to have decided to adopt a new approach to managing my e-mail. For years, I’ve worked out of a few smart mailboxes showing me stuff that’s unread for various timeframes; if something needs to stick around, then I’ll mark it as ‘unread’ every time I look at it and decide not to deal with it.
I now have a smart mailbox for things I’ve labeled with an orange flag. Which I have named “Needs Attention”.
I am still not going to try and practice “Inbox Zero”. I’m just gonna leave all this stuff in my inbox. I don’t want to have a zillion mailboxes that I file stuff into. But I feel like I have reached a point in my life where I need to take Things I Need To Get Done a bit more seriously.
I have no idea if this is related to my mom dying. Honestly I think it’s more that I’m getting tired of repeatedly marking stuff as unread.