Recently I have been working to decrease the amount of email that hits my inbox. Over the years I have used rules inside of outlook to automatically move messages from some senders to various folders inside of outlook and review them when I have time.
Now the problem exist that those folders are becoming over flowing.
Google Reader has helped me greatly to improve my email organization. Many emails that I receive are also available as RSS feeds so I have unsubscribe from the emails and subscribed to the RSS feeds through Google Reader. Google reader is organizing all my once emails into a nice RSS feed. An example I read several hundred blogs. I used to have emails come in whenever new blogs are posted to remind me to read them. With Google Reader I no longer have to subscribe- they come to my Google reader.Google reader gives you several other tools. If you have a item that you think others might like to read you can email to them right out of Google Reader.
Google Reader also allows you to create a shared items page of your favorite reads for others to read. You can read my shared items page at http://nibbypriest.com/recomended-reading/.
Using all this new web 2.0 technology I still get the dreaded forward messages from many people. Most of which I always delete.
I found http://www.stopforwarding.us/ its a great kind way to encourage people who send you those redundant forwards to stop.
What have you done to help rid yourself of email hell?
