I hate email because it tends to send me down rabbit holes and suck up hours of my life doing things I don't need to do. I've taken to doing a quick sweep of my email on my phone to do the quick replies and delete the nonsense because it's harder to take action on my phone so I stay more focused. That said, my inbox has hundreds of unattended emails and it drives me nuts. I've considered taking a vacation just for the purpose of cleaning out my email but it seems like a waste of time I'd rather be doing anything else.
I assume people who don't reply to my emails are mad at me, which makes me think email was invented to convince us we're all mad at each other all the time.
PS: Gmail lets you mass delete emails by category/sender/date. Very cathartic. Worth spending half an hour on quarterly while you ignore some other life-force-draining chore that’s haunting you, like cleaning the gunk out of your bathtub drain.
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I hate email because it tends to send me down rabbit holes and suck up hours of my life doing things I don't need to do. I've taken to doing a quick sweep of my email on my phone to do the quick replies and delete the nonsense because it's harder to take action on my phone so I stay more focused. That said, my inbox has hundreds of unattended emails and it drives me nuts. I've considered taking a vacation just for the purpose of cleaning out my email but it seems like a waste of time I'd rather be doing anything else.
Reply to my email one second after you receive it - this enrages me as well. WTF? Give a girl some space!
I can’t handle it even though I am also guilty of it. But when I do it, it’s fine!
I assume people who don't reply to my emails are mad at me, which makes me think email was invented to convince us we're all mad at each other all the time.
As someone in email recovery, I loved this.
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Amazing all a round! Thank you this and for answering my email once.
I feel so seen by this! (No need to reply.)
PS: Gmail lets you mass delete emails by category/sender/date. Very cathartic. Worth spending half an hour on quarterly while you ignore some other life-force-draining chore that’s haunting you, like cleaning the gunk out of your bathtub drain.
What is this delete feature?? I like to spend hours of my life deleting the hard way, but I'd rather delete the easy way.
Lots of ways to KonMari your inbox: https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-mass-delete-emails-gmail/#category
After I’ve purged, I ruthlessly unsubscribe from mailing lists as they arrive in my newly cleaned-up inbox.
Every time I send a newsletter, people unsubscribe from my newsletter, and I can only respect them.
I don’t like coffee either but I am unfortunately attracted to coffee which is so fucking embarrassing.
Thank you. I miss you and your writing life instruction. No need to reply. (If Substack would let me I would attach pictures of my two dogs.)
I'm not ~NOT~ going through every email I've ever sent to check and see if I did it correctly...
THAT IS NOT THE TAKEAWAY
I KNOW BUT I’M OFF MY MEDS OK