As mentioned in a previous post, many inboxes are overflowing and the situation looks set to get worse.
What’s the answer:
- Better discipline?
- Email bankruptcy?
- Choosing to use a different medium (like IM) for some conversations?
- Better email clients?
Probably all of the above.
Xobni have had a go at improving outlook – by making attachments and emails easier to find, and by making conversations easier to refer back to.
Yet more information to process: xobni’s coloured bar chart shows data about your email frequency.
It’s nothing radical (just adding functionality that outlook needed to stay competitive with other email software), but the philosophy is that every little bit helps, I suppose. Reducing the time it takes to file things, and retrieve things makes emailing more efficient. You can process more information faster.
Trouble is, I don’t think I can handle much more information. I appear to have reached my maximum rate of decision making. To to answer more queries and solve more problems in a day might well finish me off altogether. The bottleneck isn’t in the mechanism of sending and receiving mail. The bottleneck is my brain’s capacity to come up with worthwhile answers fast enough.
Anybody else feel like this?