Break It Down Or Drown In It

I am only at this a couple of weeks and already I can see that one of the large and valuable components of the WA experience revolves around the significant amount of communications between the members. Not sure about others, but I already had a fair dinkum of email traffic rolling into account before I started WA. Now the traffic is getting noticeably more intense.

For good or ill, there is a lot of redundant communications designed into the WA philosophy as well as into the WA technical platform. There isn't just a 'like' there is a notice that you received a like and that recipient acknowledged your like and so forth. Lots of traffic.

I use RULES in my Outlook to automatically shift incoming emails into manageable buckets of similar messages. So far I have set up the following storage directories (buckets) under the main Inbox of my main email address:

Note: I put the numbers in front to make sure the buckets sort to the top, otherwise, they would inconveniently sort alphabetically. This is ALWAYS a good tip for naming directories (email or file directories) if you want to be able easily keep them in order.Note2: This system allows me to ignore the lower-level things such as Like-notices until some downtime at which I can zoom through all of them quickly with acknowledgements. This way they all get acknowledged and they all get deleted keeping the email databases clean.

Note3: Regarding the Blog Posts and Questions and such, it will keep them available for me to easily check through for salience at my leisure as well.