What have you been working on?

For several days over the last week, I have been steadily focused on organizing and cleaning out my Gmail account… and not just one of them, but all of them… and I have a bunch of them.

For years I have acquired a lot of email addresses for different projects, and I allowed all of my email inboxes to accumulate tons of unread emails. If I wanted to start a new blog, I had to have an email address specifically for that project. Then I stopped updating the blog, and therefore never went back to manage the email. Rinse and repeat.

I have realized that this is an area in my life that is out of control by my own doing. I’ve also realized that I can fix this problem, and maybe even get rid of some Gmail accounts I don’t really use. I just need to spend the time necessary to make this happen. The problem for me is not the number of unsorted email accounts that I have, but is the simple fact I no longer know what is going on with them.

I have started using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, and I will be adding all of my emails to this client as I get them organized. This should help me to centralize all of my Gmail accounts to one place where I can more easily manage them and keep them under control.

I have literally put my blogging and social network interaction largely on hiatus until I get my email mess under control. So that is what I’ve been working on most lately.

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