How do you organize your email conversations?
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
I'm using Thunderbird threads enabled and the label system. The labeling is similar to the one in Gmail. Beside that I also create a folder for each client/supplier that I work with. That creates complexity when an email should be in 2 or more separate folder (because it relates to more clients), but it's when the labels are usefull. I also think that you should keep you Inbox at the end of the day as clean as possible (sort all/most of the messages in folders/labels). It's not a perfect solution but it's way better than the days when I used Outlook.
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
i have a folder called "Stuff" that holds anything that i don't want deleted. spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
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i have a folder called "Stuff" that holds anything that i don't want deleted. spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
That is Google's gmail spirit with the labels. The search and label option works if you're using descriptive labels and you can remember it. I don't think the "Find" only option works if you have a large number of emails (a couple of thousands) and a large period of time. I still find it hard to search for something that happened a couple of months ago.
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i have a folder called "Stuff" that holds anything that i don't want deleted. spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
Well, for example, I'm dealing with a client in which I'm getting emails from 3 different people, and I'm discovering that person A's description is or may be in conflict with person B. I didnt' realize that until I separated out the key points of each email and started comparing them. Marc
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
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i have a folder called "Stuff" that holds anything that i don't want deleted. spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
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I have folders called stuff, CDs and DVDs full of data called Stuff1, Stuff2 etc. Glad it isnt just me that stuffs things in one catch all place. Copernic does my searching...usually turning up the thing in want in c:\stuff. I also used oldstuff, downloadedstuff, goodstuff, stufftodeletesoon etc.
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
Inbox and Outbox.
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
This is partly why Outlook 2007 has those cool Search Folders. You can point them at a store and create filtered lists based upon how you want to see your information. It is like using a view in a DB. All the data sits in one place and the views let you see that data through different eyes.
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This is partly why Outlook 2007 has those cool Search Folders. You can point them at a store and create filtered lists based upon how you want to see your information. It is like using a view in a DB. All the data sits in one place and the views let you see that data through different eyes.
I do same thing here. I have folders based on company, projects and team discussion. Outlook simplifies the rest. God bless, Ernest Laurentin
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
Check out ClearContext[^]. It requires Outlook but for me it's been a truly marvelous product that I'm very satisfied with.
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
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Yes! Gmal totally rules. The Labels thingy is great. Like having the possibility to put things in multiple folders at once. I only wish there was a possibility to manage the labels themselves in a hierarchy. This flat thing is not always optimal when the labels are many. Another great email managing application is Opera (www.opera.com[^]). It also uses labels and fast searching. You just drag-and-drop the email to as many labels as you wish and press a button (I think i was "K" for some reason...) in order to remove the "inbox" label from it. Regards Carl
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
- Filters (for regular routing of future incoming emails) 2) Folders (for storage purposes) 3) Contacts (Clip the contacts into AddressBook)
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i have a folder called "Stuff" that holds anything that i don't want deleted. spending time on organization is a waste, if you've got a fast enough Find feature.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
spending time on organization is a waste
I would rather suggest an initial setup time to create filters. That pays for in the long run. Wouldn't it? :)
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I place them all in the Deleted Folder. That way I feel like I actually made some progress during the day... :sigh: :) Cheers. David
Orcrist wrote:
Deleted Folder
:mad: Beware. That folder is so much privileged in most email clients that you get a very quick shortcuts to empty them. Outlook provides two such: 'Empty Deleted Items' appears in Tree Node menu and also in Tools menu. :)
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
When I worked as support I used a folder structure, arranged by company name, then enquiry (my description). When done reading or sending emails I just put them in the appropriate folder. Worked quite well. These days, I just use gmail for everything - because I don't like company emails, and I can always search for conversation threads. I also use it for things like serial numbers to software I bought, and sending encrypted files with login details for various things. It's a pretty neat solution, I love gmail.
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
I've tried loads of ways in the past - I use Outlook and finally settled on simple Archive PST's for each year with a folder in it for each month - this makes it dead easy to archive (just sort by date and drag the emails in) - then I index the whole lot with X1 - my actual Outlook profile only opens the current inbox stuff and X1 deals with finding anything else
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I have emails from clients that span many topics and include a variety of important information. When working with a new client, there's a lot of new info, a lot of questions, one thing leads to another, etc. Do you use any technology (from a paperpad to a Cray) to help organize the threads? Come to think of it, if the conversations could be organized as forum threads, that would be great! I'm thinkin of using MindManager, but wondered what folks do, especially for new clients/work/information. Marc
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