Email Consolidation (I like Gmail)…
Ten years ago I never used to get much email. One or two a day from friends. Life was good. Now I get well over two hundred emails a day and sometimes five hundred. Do I have that many friends? Of course not. As we all know, our email has been taken over by spam.
In the phone world there’s the ‘do not call’ register. Unfortunately there is no such list in the email world. In the phone world we are able to port our number across networks if we want to and that’s a good thing in that it enables our friends to not have to keep updating their address books. In the email world we ditch our email addresses with constant regularity and hope our friends and family keep up. Spam. It’s a pain.
If you’re like me you probably have a few email accounts you use now. There’s one for home, one for your account sign-ups, one for crap, and one for work. Email proliferation in the form of accounts and actual emails is huge. I’ve tried several ways to manage my emails over the years and never really found the thing that worked.
Well I am pleased to report that Google mail seems to be the closest thing to perfection so far. It has the best spam handler I’ve come across and can consolidate email addresses. You can pull all your email from other addresses to Gmail, and even send from gmail just as if you were in the other email address (Just go into Settings/Accounts). What’s more, with the addition of automatically assigning labels to incoming mail, you can instantly tell just where your email’s come from (see picture above). I now only look in two places for email: Yahoo! and Gmail. I finally feel like I’m in control of my email and not the other way around. If you’re struggling with email proliferation and multiple spam messages, give it a try.
Later…
