Don’t you wish you can just delete your Inbox?

For a couple of years now, I normally receive over a hundred of emails every day. That does not include the questions and messages I get thru Twitter and Facebook.

It gets worse when I’m on vacation or on a trip where I don’t have enough time to go online. Emails get buried very easily and I wish I can just delete my Inbox altogether.

As of this writing, I have 595 unread emails and a few hundred more un-answered ones. So sorry if you’ve emailed and I haven’t answered back… yet.

P.S. To those who asked, I actually have a personal assistant who helps me out with answering emails, among others. However, I think it only covers like 10% of the emails — ones that can be easily answered and need not have to be confirmed with me. The others are business communications, reader inquiries and people asking for advise, etc.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

29 Responses

  1. Avatar for rado rado says:

    gmail filters is a very useful feature. I also use it to filter FB emails just as how Mito described

  2. Avatar for Mito Mito says:

    regarding facebook emails, what I did is instead of making new account, I created a folder for facebook emails and set up filter that will directly put all facebook emails to that folder. gaya sa outlook. mas manageable. :)

  3. Avatar for Jonaflormicfren Jonaflormicfren says:

    It’s an opportunity to be followed. http://iloveyou-mydear.blogspot.com/

  4. Avatar for NineSwordz NineSwordz says:

    ^ that’s what I did too.. gmail for Facebook flood & attachments, and yahoo for my personal email.

  5. Avatar for facebookie facebookie says:

    re FB emails, why dont you make a dedicated email instead? thats what i did

  6. Avatar for vince vince says:

    typo, i’ll again

    uso na ngayon ang crowdsourcing. Just refer all your emails asking for help or advice that can be ANSWERED BY OTHERS to a popular say filipino message board. madami ang sasagot sa kanila doon

    I answer and ask a lot of questions on www,tipidpc.com and www. pinoydsl.net

  7. Avatar for vince vince says:

    uso na ngayon ang crowdsourcing. Just refer all your emails asking for help or advice that can be directed by answers to a popular say filipino message board. madami ang sasagot sa kanila doon

    I answer and ask a lot of questions on www,tipidpc.com and www. pinoydsl.net

  8. Avatar for Calvin Calvin says:

    yun ibang email inquiries mo nafifilter sa akin kasi hindi ka raw sumasagot. dapat paswelduhin mo na ako. hehehe. :P

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