So if my email inbox gets over like 8 or 9 emails I start to get real nervous and anxious. I feel like I have so much to do and can't concentrate on any of it.
I feel extremely overjoyed when I can clean out my inbox.
I compensate for this lack of freedom by 1) Creating folders where I can store like-minded emails together and 2) Flagging the email or marking the email as 'Unread' until I can devote myself fully to it.
What about you? Do you have a limit on how many emails you keep in your inbox? At what point are you driven to insanity?
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I will either delete, archive or put an email in a folder. Just leaving a read one hanging around the inbox is not an option to me. I also empty my spam folder everyday.Oh, and every time I put something in the recycle bin I empty it.
So is THAT obsessive compulsive?
If you're asking me, "No Way!" That is standard Operating Procedure. However, to the 'normal' people out there (read: Jason Fullen), we are crazy.
My friend, I am about to make your head explode.
At this moment, I have 198 messages in my inbox, 50 of which are unread and have been for a while. When you total all of my unread messages in the 7 folders I have, I have exactly 400 unread messages (272 from Heart Connex, 27 from Barna, 51 from CPYU, and the 50 from my inbox).
Wow, you probably aren't even going to talk to me tomrrow at the zoo. You might even throw some poo at me.
Bobby, it sounds like your life is full of poo as it is. Clean your life up man, stop wallowing in that cesspool of electronic feces.
Clean the inbox... come on, everybody's doing it!
I just cleaned out one of my inboxes this weekend. it had 200 in it. i havent cleaned out the other one yet... it has 82 unread and 257 total. HA!
I am not sure which disturbs me more: the fact that this post has "outted" this many control freaks OR there is actually an OCD doll and why does this doll or person playing with said doll really need a moist towelette? What if the company that makes moist towelettes uses employees who fold and package the moist towelette with ungloved germ infested hands?
Shelly Mac, that would be an OCD nightmare.
OH! And I got one more on you and Bobby. Additional words for poo: BM, bowel excretion, fecel matter, stool, incontinenence of the bowel, rectal output, hershey squirts, loose stool, growler, taking the browns to the super bowl, pinch a loaf, mudbutt, shart and my personal fav from my hospital days "CODE BROWN".
Bobby and Robert, you have been measured and found lacking.
Growler??? I don't even want to know.
Okay, this may come back to bite me later.
Contrary to popular belief. I love neatness and order. I love folders. And much to Robert's dismay, I do have some folders. However, my currents stats would seem to betray these truths. Now please keep in mind that just be cause something is "unread" doesn't mean it hasn't been read, it's just categorized as unread. Also, I'm cursed with pack rat mentalty, probably stemming from a deep seeded fear of being wrong and wanting to prove myself right at a future date, I keep way too many emails. And now for the stats:
(Don't call the email police)
Inbox Count: 2132
Total Unread (in all folders):5345
Note* Numbers are inflated as I run three computers that all copy mail from the server. This means that if I read the email from my phone say, then it will still open on my computer 1 or 2 therefore most likely not getting recategorized as "read."
Note 2* I need help. But thank you dear Lord for xobni.
Jason I would believe you about neatness and order if you can tell me you have less than 12 windows (programs) open on your computer right now!
Well do you?
8. unless you count the tabs in firefox. Then we're at 12.
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