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Unfortunately e-mail is not the least important form of communication. It is almost the only form these days at the University and in the larger community. We are close to paperless. I interact with journals, meetings, administration, funding agencies, colleagues, get requests for review, letters of recommendation (sent and received), notification of funding, notification of policy, invitations to speak,... all via e-mail - exclusively.
276 in the inbox. (I'd prefer to have 100 or less.) They are waiting to be sorted into over 260 folders! In my work, keeping them gives me records for tracking down and solving problems.
Folders, people. Especially if you're stuck with Outlook, like I am for work. Folders, and then folders within folders. It's all there if you need it. I also recommend Google Desktop, so you can search your own stuff effectively.
For my Gmail personal account, I tag stuff that matters and archive it after it goes past the 50 that show up on one page. Everything else (Facebook reminders, spam, etc) gets deleted. I'm still only using 1% of the storage. Plus they have that new autopilot feature ;)
Once I started using Remember the Milk, I stopped using my email inbox as a to-do list, and it's size went down to under 20 messages. Nowadays the only things filling up my inbox are either emails I want to keep handy for reference or things that have yet to be "tasked" to Remember the Milk...
Facebook is overtaking email as the primary means of communication for many people. It's growing at a million people every two days... I now spend as much time checking Facebook as I do checking email.
I'm even thinking of discontinuing our church e-news to put those resources on Facebook. It's much more interactive, and I can be a daily part of people's lives without "spamming" them. Not to mention that we have more FB friends than we do email subscribers.
That being said, it's awful hard to stop any kind of communication once it gets going.
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