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An [[Outlook]] inbox is a serviceable to-do list (after a fashion: if your relationship with your mandated queue of things you are meant to do is like the [[JC]]’s it will be impressionistic at best) and a single annual folder is an oubliette into which everything goes that you have either dealt with or that you are past caring about, if you were ever presently caring about in the first place. | An [[Outlook]] inbox is a serviceable to-do list (after a fashion: if your relationship with your mandated queue of things you are meant to do is like the [[JC]]’s it will be impressionistic at best) and a single annual folder is an oubliette into which everything goes that you have either dealt with or that you are past caring about, if you were ever presently caring about in the first place. | ||
There is a certain sort of [[legal eagle]] who will diligently file every email into a dedicated subfolder. Actually, ''most'' [[legal eagle]]s will do this, regardless of — will, ignorant [[and/or]] in denial about the fact that ''manually filing emails is the biggest waste of intellectual capital since the invention of [[human resources]]. It is antediluvian, as it commits you to a pre-defined [[taxonomy]] which might have made excellent sense when you ''created'' the emails, but will ber no relation to your enquiry when you come to retrieve them. If you want to pull together every example you have contracts of [[limited recourse]] wording when you filed them by deal, you are going to be rifling through a hell of a lot of virtual filing cabinets. | There is a certain sort of [[legal eagle]] who will diligently file every email into a dedicated subfolder. Actually, ''most'' [[legal eagle]]s will do this, regardless of — will, ignorant [[and/or]] in denial about the fact that ''manually filing emails is the biggest waste of intellectual capital since the invention of [[human resources]]''. It is antediluvian, as it commits you to a pre-defined [[taxonomy]] which might have made excellent sense when you ''created'' the emails, but will ber no relation to your enquiry when you come to retrieve them. If you want to pull together every example you have contracts of [[limited recourse]] wording when you filed them by deal, you are going to be rifling through a hell of a lot of virtual filing cabinets. | ||
Emails come pre-loaded with metadata: from, to, cc, subject, attachments, date sent, date received. All email service providers data index your email archives, so retrieving by search is trivial and lightning-quick. You don’t ''need'' to impose any further [[taxonomy]] on top of that. | Emails come pre-loaded with metadata: from, to, cc, subject, attachments, date sent, date received. All email service providers data index your email archives, so retrieving by search is trivial and lightning-quick. You don’t ''need'' to impose any further [[taxonomy]] on top of that. | ||
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There is a reason there’s no [[Dewey decimal system|Dewey Decimal System]] for the internet. Though, bless them, someone tried. | There is a reason there’s no [[Dewey decimal system|Dewey Decimal System]] for the internet. Though, bless them, someone tried. | ||
I have developed a self-enforcing prioritisation method called "if no one hassles me about it, it can't be that important." After all, whose problem is it if | I have developed a self-enforcing prioritisation method called "if no one hassles me about it, it can't be that important." After all, whose problem is it if you haven’t answered their email? This is especially good for filtering meeting requests. Best to keep people guessing whether you will show or not. Those who really care will call you. | ||
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