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j4 ([personal profile] j4) wrote2009-11-14 11:26 pm

Inboxing clever

Today's post is on another blog which I don't update often enough (though I really should because it's the closest thing I have to a professional blog -- on the other hand we do now have a blogging service at work, which I should probably be starting to use for actually-work-related things... MORE HOURS IN DAY PLS KTHX).
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2009-11-15 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)

I used to use Gnus for work email. That has an option to expire mail, though I only turn it on for automatically generated mail rather than anything a human sent. However, even for ordinary mail, it did have the newsreader-like property that once you'd seen a message you'd never see it again unless you specifically sought it out, which is almost as good as the mail expiring.

Tagging sounds good but I think requires a certain discipline to use. For people who've got it, great. (My LJ posts are quite well tagged but I write them which is a rather critical difference form the contexts of my inbox.)