I've had fever/flu since Thursday, so I completely forgot my blogging turn yesterday. Anyway, I'll just post this now and hopefully the fever is gone next saturday.
In the lecture and materials there was much talk about email and how people use it. This got me to think about when I first started using email. I remember that in elementary school we all had to create our own email address to some finnish service that provided free email addresses at that time. We didn't really have any use to them and I remember sending maybe three emails across the room to some friends.
Later I remember using luukku.com, mostly to order something from the internet. When GMail came, I started using it and it soon replaced luukku as my main email. Luukku still remained as secondary email for suspicious sites I had to give my email address to, but nowdays I don't even remember the password anymore. In the university I of course got uta-email.
Interesting thing I realized when I thought about my email usage, is that I don't remember ever using it to any kind of personal communication. Emails I send are always related to studies or other official things. If I have something to say to a friend, I give them a call or send sms, never email.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Handling email from my point of view
In the second lecture there was a topic how one is using and organizing her or his email. I could roughly divide my handling with email into two categories which differ from each others in that how I use them: an email account mostly for studying purposes and other email accounts for different purposes.
I check my email account for studying normally many times per day. Other email accounts I do not open maybe even daily, unless I am not waiting some email especially.
At this moment I have in the inbox of my email for studying many hundreds if not thousands of messages, I think I have never cleaned the inbox very well during these years what I have spent at university. Sometimes I try to empty it, but it is very time-taking. So I keep myself organizing email somewhere between the strategies no filers - spring cleaners. The inboxes of my other emails are maybe better organized; at least there are not even hundreds of messages.
I think the more there are emails in the inbox, the more important are the tools for organizing emails. Especially if there start to be hundreds of emails in the inbox, it is very useful to have a possibility to search some specific email by sender or content. Other tools what I am using for handling emails is marking them important or some other way that I can find them more easily for later use. What comes to archiving or deleting emails, usually I keep all the emails in the inbox what I think I could need someway maybe later. If I see that some email is surely needless for anything later, only in that case I destroy it at same moment.
After writing this post, I saw Taina L’s post "My e-mail handling strategy" in the blog Get connected! [1]. I think there are a lot of connections with her how I organize or not organize my email.
[1] http://coordin8.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-e-mail-handling-strategy.html
I check my email account for studying normally many times per day. Other email accounts I do not open maybe even daily, unless I am not waiting some email especially.
At this moment I have in the inbox of my email for studying many hundreds if not thousands of messages, I think I have never cleaned the inbox very well during these years what I have spent at university. Sometimes I try to empty it, but it is very time-taking. So I keep myself organizing email somewhere between the strategies no filers - spring cleaners. The inboxes of my other emails are maybe better organized; at least there are not even hundreds of messages.
I think the more there are emails in the inbox, the more important are the tools for organizing emails. Especially if there start to be hundreds of emails in the inbox, it is very useful to have a possibility to search some specific email by sender or content. Other tools what I am using for handling emails is marking them important or some other way that I can find them more easily for later use. What comes to archiving or deleting emails, usually I keep all the emails in the inbox what I think I could need someway maybe later. If I see that some email is surely needless for anything later, only in that case I destroy it at same moment.
After writing this post, I saw Taina L’s post "My e-mail handling strategy" in the blog Get connected! [1]. I think there are a lot of connections with her how I organize or not organize my email.
[1] http://coordin8.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-e-mail-handling-strategy.html
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