slow progress
I'm trying the m&m reward method for dealing with my inbox. I'm using peanut butter ones. Two for a regular email and three for an extra-guilt-inducing one. I'm down to 14 emails from 36, but three m&ms doesn't feel like enough inducement for the remaining ones. Maybe I'll have to go up to five. Plus a scrabble game.
I also have a problem with accumulating firefox tabs. I meant to blog about my achievement when I went through and closed 130+ of them. I didn't have anywhere near that many open this time, but I just lost them all in a crash. I'm sure there were useful things in there, but right now I'm just feeling relieved that I don't have to deal with them.
Update: I'm down to 5 emails. One of those is a new one from someone I just replied to after 4 months (the person I least wanted to hear from, of course). I had the idea of making it a goal to keep my inbox down to 5 messages, once I got it cleared out, so I'm going to just count it as cleared and start that now. Which means I can go to bed.
posted by Lucy @ 3:46 PM
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I find "bookmark all tabs" a good solution for having a zillion open. I tell myself if I really want to go back to them later, I can just open that whole bookmarked folder, but more commonly I end up only opening a handful of them back up, and the rest eventually get deleted or ignored.
awesome clearing job!!!!
That is fantastic. I'm glad the M&Ms did the trick. They are nicely granular, aren't they? Not "grainy," but "of a size that permits flexibility in dosing."
My inbox is nearly 500, partly because of the need to not look at the guilt inducing emails mixed in to the ones that would be easy to delete or file.
I also have the Firefox tabs as to-do-list failures. My machine is too flaky to get about 20 or so, though.
I think I need a bag of M&Ms.
There's an add-on called Tab Mix Plus that allows you to do all kinds of cool stuff with your tabs, including letting you reopen your last (or even a prior) session if you had a crash. The official version was not compatible with Firefox 3 when it first came out, but it may be now. Either way, the version on the creator's website works great. I am totally dependent on it.
And now that you've got it down to a manageable but mangy few, I say go for the brownie.
Styley, I've done that for tabs that contain papers I feel I ought to read, but I never do go back and look at them.
Madeleine, I bet if you were rewarding yourself with an m&m, it would be easier to pick out the easily deleted messages! That was how I got rid of several unneeded messages that were mixed in with the guilt.
KathyR, I have tabmixplus, but occasionally it will remember a really old session, rather than the one that just crashed, which is what happened last night. I should download firefox 3, though (as long as tabmixplus still works).
M&Ms are delicious!
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