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Computer related pet peeves
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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Quick tip for anyone in this situation.
Start by using search to clear everything in your inbox from a particular sender you know wont have sent anything important.
Don't catch up by going one mail at a time, catch up going one sender at a time. You'll be done within a day.
Don't know why I never thought of this before. Just sorted by sender and was able to crank through a ton of emails.
I'm absolutely guilty of what OP describes as being annoying. My coping mechanisms meant ratcheting down the frequency of monitoring those feeds. No email alerts, ever. Check and respond to email twice daily. Respond to IMs (Teams) hourly. Otherwise, pay attention to the meeting I'm in or the work I'm doing. So if I get sent an email I may not get to it for a while, sometimes not before the meeting I'm being called out on.
But in my role I spend 90% of my day in meetings or joint working sessions. Others with different working profiles would have different strategies and expectations, as does the OP, I suspect.
I've done this, can confirm it works. Unsubscribe from the senders you don't need while you're at it, and the problem will be significantly easier to manage in the future as well!