Half-Life Inbox: A Realistic Way to Tackle E-mail

Re:Half-Life Inbox: A Realistic Way to Tackle E-mail by cliveowen on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:09AM (#7070136)

I don't understand what's with people and email. My inbox is always zero, I get the seldom update email from Google/Facebook/whatever, but that's it. If I have to contact someone email is the last thing I use, first I try Facebook, text and calling.

I disabled mails from Facebook, Amazon et similia.

I guess the only thing that I do that most people don't is that I don't subscribe to all kinds of crap and I don't put my email address online. In fact, I have had my gmail address since 2009 and I have had exactly 0 spam mail, and that's not hyperbole.

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Re:Half-Life Inbox: A Realistic Way to Tackle E-mail by leoedin on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:16AM (#7070190)

Do you have a job? It's easy to deal with personal emails (99% of the time they're marketing crap, and the 1% that isn't is something nice from someone you like). It's the work emails that get you (and what I assume this is targeted at, given the "come back from vacation" part)

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Re:Half-Life Inbox: A Realistic Way to Tackle E-mail by zetalabs on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:23AM (#7070253)

And then you focus in your work email for a while and personal explodes. At least this happens to me as a vast portion of my network is international.

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