Friday, April 07, 2006

Being overwhelmed with mailing lists in GMail


I am currently somewhat overwhelmed by mailing lists, even in the mighty GMail. I'm currently looking around for ways to manage the flow of incoming messages. I definately have not taken the time to learn much about labels or staring of messages, aside from the relatively basic tagging of messages with an attachment with a star.

This Gmail Tips Complete guide may be of use, but I will have to do more research before I pronounce it good. Does have some nice screenshots.

photo © Kimmo Palosaari for openphoto.net CC:PublicDomain

2 comments:

  1. short list of what you need to do:

    create appropriate labels for each list.

    create filters to automatically label list traffic, and move archive those messages (skipping the inbox).

    those two things should pretty much set you straight - they're kind of the whole point of gmail...

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  2. Sounds good. I rarely need to read mailing list traffic "live"

    I prefer to search for it though later, which will be possible if they are in the archive folders.

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