The Quest for Inbox Zero

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: been stalled for a day or so, while working on my app.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: had to be more ruthless with a few more of these emails, responding with short emails or regretfully deciding to drop the task entirely.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: processing yesterday's incoming emails meant I didn't spend much time on the backlog of my Inbox. Slowly... slowly... slowly processing.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: Did this next batch the hard way: by responding to the emails. Yes, today I responded to a dozen emails that were over 3 years old. Nothing like responding to a conversation that has already passed. I'm determined to keep them going! I, also, managed to process all incoming email today. Yay for weekends, I guess. Related: someone stopped another spam farm. I've had surprisingly little this weekend.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: Decided I'm not going to worry about a particularly old email, archived it, aaaaaaaaaaand the other 30 replies to that email that I didn't read either.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: Still going slowly. Finding a LOT of content I was sent to download doesn't exist anymore. Also, I'm thoroughly pissed at the moment. Upside, that's another couple emails that I can delete.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: I started at the oldest, back in April of 2014, and started processing them. Nope, Martha doesn't need me to take care of her strawberry starts any more. Nope, I don't need two copies of an email from a fan of my Letters to My Children series. Nope, I didn't redeem that refund for a cancelled book, and it's gone. Yes, I can watch the Kickstarter Backer version of Kung Fury, and it was AWESOME.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: Fuck you, flowers.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: I should be asleep at this hour.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: I managed not to add any more emails to the stack, processing all of today's incoming emails, along with the 86 from the inbox. At this rate, it'll take me the whole month to finish the inbox, because I'm fairly certain I have cherry-picked all the easy ones with "Phooey, not doing that one any more." Related: I have another 40 browser tabs open now.

Thoughts on this batch of processed emails: "Good lord, so many missed opportunities in my inbox. I think I have maybe a dozen requests to speak, another dozen requests for writing, and about 40 emails from friends saying hello. I'm embarrassed at the number of different paths I chose not to go down."