DISQUS

jafer · 1 year ago

I think I have a kajillion email addresses, from my real name, to my domain names, to gmail, yahoo and hotmail, and if I open my outlook, I have them all go there so I can check them all at once.

I have to say though, that mostly when not using outlook, I check my gmail and yahoo mail most often online, which is not even daily cuz I don't really give a crap about my emails and I know I have to put aside time to get rid of any letover spam not in my spam box.

With the other emails I get little popups on my computer and that tells me whether I want to be bothered checking my email.

I dunno but email seems so 45 seconds ago to me and I figure if anybody I know really wants to get ahold of me they'll probably just call me. Otherwise, it's not urgent and can wait for me to respond whenever I get around to it.

Peter John Hill · 1 year ago

Nice article.

I am totally in love with google apps. I have a few mailing lists that I set up with myself as the only recipient to get custom email addresses.

I love the idea of figuring out who is sharing my email address with who. That is brilliant.

Hope you made it to Ignite last night!

pjh

vidsaw · 1 year ago

I need my own domain name. Two maybe, my real name and my online pseudo identity. Maybe.

Soon.

Krish · 1 year ago

Marina, just came across this post of yours. I have been using sitename@mydomain.com for all the site registrations. I was worried about my approach because I won't show up to my friends in social networking sites because I use different email address for every site. I started it as one way to identify spamming websites three years ago and I am sticking to it because it helps me in other ways. I am thrilled to see that you, as an efficiency consultant, is suggesting the same approach. So I should be doing the right thing :-)

Shawn · 1 year ago

I just took the opposite approach and moved all my email accounts to gmail. I gave up on the spam a long time ago and just use google to filter it. I filter the important emails so I can always find them. I figure that if they haven't found my email addresses yet they just aren't trying hard enough.

I never use my work email for anything personal because when you change jobs you pretty much lose everthing. Except the spam always finds you.

Thanks for the post!

Andrew Woods · 1 year ago

I like GMail. I make heavy use of labels, but mine are by subject. So for social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, I used Social::Twitter and Social::Facebook. I also use priority label like *Answer for things I need to answer and *TODO for things I need to complete. I like your idea of using a separate email address for each service I signup for. I may give that a go.