kadavy.net » Screencasts http://www.kadavy.net Get to know David Kadavy Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:41:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.kadavy.net http://www.kadavy.net/wp/../favicon_kadavynet.gif kadavy.net Filter Your Social Networking Notification E-mails into a Separate Gmail Account http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/filter-your-social-networking-notification-e-mails-into-a-separate-gmail-account/ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/filter-your-social-networking-notification-e-mails-into-a-separate-gmail-account/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 03:36:39 +0000 David Kadavy http://www.kadavy.net/?p=661 I love social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, but they send an awful lot of notification e-mails. I get an e-mail every time someone comments on my blog; I get an e-mail every time someone follows me on Twitter. On my birthday, I got 63 e-mails from Facebook! Now, I’m not complaining about getting birthday wishes, and I like to review these other e-mails from time to time; but filtering them into little folders off to the side of my inbox is just too distracting. I want my inbox to have IMPORTANT STUFF in it, and I don’t want the tempation to poke around in these little folders every once in awhile.

I know that I can save myself alot of time and distraction if I just put these e-mails somewhere far, far away, so I’m going to filter them to an entirely new account. Then, I can set up a schedule to manage them in “batches”. Maybe I’ll check the account once a day, maybe three times a week. Maybe once a week. What’s important is that they will be far away from the more important e-mails that go directly into my inbox.

If e-mails from social networking sites are distracting you I’m going to show a special trick to get them out of your way. Check out this screencast.

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