Email Clean Up

Recently I have been working to decrease the amount of email  that hits my inbox. Over the years I have used rules inside of outlook to automatically move messages from some senders to various folders inside of outlook and review them when I have time.

 

Now the problem exist that those folders are becoming over flowing.

Google Reader has helped me greatly to improve my email organization. Many emails that I receive are also available as RSS feeds so I have unsubscribe from the emails and subscribed to the RSS feeds through Google Reader.  Google reader is organizing all my once emails into a nice RSS feed.  An example I read several hundred blogs.  I used to have emails come in whenever new blogs are posted to remind me to read them.  With Google Reader I no longer have to subscribe- they come to my Google reader.

 

Google reader gives you several other tools.  If you have a item that you think others might like to read you can email to them right out of Google Reader. 

 

Google Reader also allows you to create a shared items page of your favorite reads for others to read.  You can read my shared items page at  www.nibby.net/reader.

Using all this new web 2.0 technology I still get the dreaded forward messages from many people. Most of which I always delete.

 

I found http://www.stopforwarding.us/ its a great kind way to encourage people who send you those redundant forwards to stop.

What have you done to help rid yourself of email hell?