Recently, I had the chance to talk with Microsoft Guru Raphael Aquino-Jose, who is Hotmail’s Senior Product Manager.
One of the first questions he asked was, “What’s your inbox like”?
Are you a Happy Mess? Sorted & Ordered? Or are you Lean & Light?
I used to be a Happy Mess, which Microsoft calls a Piler.
Pilers keep almost every email and I was constantly using the search function to find an email!
Now, I would like to call myself Sorted & Ordered, which means I’m a filer.
One day, I had enough of my emails getting out of control and sat down and made folders for almost everything imaginable and started filing emails away.
Now that I do that, I feel a lot more in control of my inbox and it’s easy to find something. Plus, it’s nice looking at an almost empty inbox.
I’m definitely not Lean & Light, which means you’re a deleter. Deleters will trash most emails before even reading them and lot of important emails can get lost in the shuffle!
Luckily, you can sign up for Hotmail, where you have all of these time-saving functions to help you.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a piler, a filer or a deleter, Hotmail has functions like Sweep to File, Account Aggregation and Conversation Threading to help you out!
Head over to What’s Your Inbox Like and tell me what you are? Do you use Hotmail?
Disclosure: As part of the Windows Champions blogger program, I have been loaned a Windows 7 PC for the next year. I will also have the opportunity to learn more about Windows and Microsoft. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
My inbox is a mess. Plus I have so many email adresses it’s crazy. Luckily my ihpne helps me control some items that I can quickly scn and delete. But sometimes it’s just crazy. The boys grab my phone and look at the number. When it’s over 100 they know it’s out of control.
I am sorted and ordered. But I use Windows Live Mail for my emails. I have folders for everything (you even have your own folder hehe). I would also say I am a deleter though because I do delete things that i don’t feel the need to keep. =)
I try very hard to be sorted and ordered. Things get lost when everything begins to pile up in my inbox. I’m forever checking it to be sure I don’t miss something and that it’s all filed neatly in it’s folder.
I am actually somewhat organized as far as my email goes. I have a Hotmail account but hardly ever use it. For my email program, I use Incredimail. I have tried Outlook but it was too confusing so I kept my Incredimail. I have folders for everything and have certain emails automatically put into certain folders as soon as I get it.
I’m very organized when it comes to emails. A lot of the times I’ll have more than 20 a day, and when it gets crazy, I’ll sit down and put each one in an appropriate folder, and get rid of the ones I no longer need 🙂
I’m sorted and ordered and then I go back and delete about every two weeks. But as of late, email has quadrupled.
Thanks for joining for the chat with Raphael! Great post. 🙂
I am so a happy mess. I dream of one day being sorted and ordered. I wonder if it is possible for me?!