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By: Jake Ludington

Jake Ludington — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:58:41 +0000

I'm firmly believe that Inbox zero is completely unnecessary. Seeing into the chaos is necessary, which is why all the search operators in Gmail are awesome. My favorite is probably in:inbox is:unread which narrows down the inbox to only unread messages, similar to the view unread messages feature of Outlook.

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Order vs. chaos « Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:58:36 +0000

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By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:39:57 +0000

Dawn,

if you handle emails FROM clients the same way as emails TO clients, then you can use one filter instead of two.

You can either edit the filter via Gmail’s interface and put:

@client-domain.com) OR to:(@client-domain.com

in the from: rule. Notice how the opening and closing brackets are missing. This is so that you could add more domains for the same rule. For example:

@client-domain1.com OR @client-domain2.com) OR to:(@client-domain1.com OR @client-domain2.com

Or, alternatively, you can Export the list of filters, edit it, and then re-import it again.

Separate filters are only needed for DIFFERENT clients or different handling.

By: pankajunk

pankajunk — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:26 +0000

Dawn, we recently created a whitepaper on a related subject of management of email chaos in a business context. We have argued that better filtering or search are not the final answers, but to ask whether we’re using email technology properly at all. We have concluded that companies are not, since it is often used for collaboration (file collaboration, discussions, task management) which leads to email chaos (everyone talking to everyone else). We have further suggested that we shift to online collaboration tools for these purposes, and make it a discipline to use them over email.

you can check out the white paper @ http://www.hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/

By: Embrace chaos with Gmail

Embrace chaos with Gmail — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:01:25 +0000

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By: Farid Hadi

Farid Hadi — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:53:53 +0000

When I started out I used to label a few of my emails, just like you have mentioned in this article but now I just use the search. I also use GTalk to communicate with my clients so this method works great for me. I type in the clients name in the search field and I get every conversation I’ve had with that client, whether it was over email or chat.

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Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for May 25, 2009 — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:50:54 +0000

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