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Hoarders vs. Deleters- What Your Inbox Says
BlueCup writes "You are your inbox. Take a clear-eyed look at how you answer or file each email. Notice what you choose to keep or delete. Consider your anxiety when your inbox is jammed with unanswered messages. The makeup and tidiness of your inbox is a reflection of your habits, your mental health and, yes, even the way Mom and Dad raised you." I always knew my obsessive packratting said something important about me as a human being.
Am I missing something here?
Yes.
You are using Mail.app and Spotlight (I do too) so you don't think gmail is so amazing.
But if you were to use another e-mail client for a while (AOL, Outlook, etc) you would realize just how TERRIBLE the average e-mail program's search ability is. It just doesn't work that well. Often, they search by (seemingly) walking though the e-mails one by one. Thus when you have 1000 e-mails searches take 10x as long as when you have 100. If you were to try to search through my backed e-mail (2-3 years) it would take a LONG time. Compare this to a fraction of a second to do the same with Spotlight (or gmail).
The live results and updates that Spotlight gives is what makes it so powerful.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
There's absolutely nothing imaginary about deleting emails being criminal. This was a "finance executive" she advised to delete NINE THOUSAND emails. I work for a global insurance company that also has a huge financial branch. Along with certain sides of the insurance aspect of the company, the financial branch is also restricted by FEDERAL LAW that certain correspondence must be kept and archived (emails, phone conversations, all sorts of paperwork, etc etc etc). So, depending on what he deals in, it very well may be criminal to delete some of those nine thousand emails.
Check out copernic desktop. Adds Spotlight-like searching to everything, including email. I prefer the seamlessness of spotlight, but like the previews in Copernic. Plus, it's be best choice on Windows.
I don't know why the parent is modded so high when it has a major factual inaccuracy, namely a dictionary/word suggester. Yup, it could use some help and not care that words like "internet" don't need to be capitalized but that's neither here nor there.
Gmail = labels/filters + basically unlimited disk usage + search = My best experience with email since 1996. And I install Exchange for a (partial) living. shhh