I have recently started forwarding all of my mail to Gmail, and I have been added a few filters that make checking my mail so much better.

The main thing I did is filter anything with unsubscribe in the text to a mailing list folder and for it to skip the inbox. Gmail does a pretty good of filtering spam, but it doesn’t filter the mailing lists that I rarely want to read. I tend not to use the unsubscribe links, because some spammers verify your email address with these links.

One other thing I do is use Gmail as a ToDo list. I filter everything with [ToDo] that is sent from my email address into a ToDo folder and it skips the inbox. It is really nice to have a ToDo list in your e-mail. One less thing you have to check.

If you don’t have Gmail, just ask and I will send you an invite.

posted by kbrower at 11:26 am & filed under Uncategorized |