Today was the first day of work for the New Year. I hadn’t really done anything with my email while I was gone, though I did take a quick look over the weekend and got rid of the obvious spam, so when I arrived today, I had 120 or so “real” emails to deal with. Of those, all but 43 were broadcasts and therefore easy to deal with. But the remaining 43 kept me occupied for the whole day, since some took real thought to answer.
I also did my annual cold-start of my mail, copying all of last year’s mail to a backup database, then deleting it from my live mail database. And I took advantage of having a small mail database (only 50MB, down from 500MB before I started the process) to “upgrade” the design to the latest version, and, for the first time, I installed the special IBM version instead of the vanilla Lotus out-of-the-box edition. And then I added back my own personal tweaks. The process was time-consuming but not difficult.
I left the office with an empty inbox. I know it won’t last, but it feels good for now!