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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Here's my problem (well, one of them  ). There are things that I could do to greatly simply my life, but I can't bring myself to spend the time at the beginning in order to get them set up. Yeah, I need to break myself from that--it's costing me too much time in my life, and increasing the angst. |
The filters require very little time. 99% of the time just clicking on the drop down menu next to the reply arrow, selecting
"Filter messages like this" will fill in a from/etc. that is best to filter by. Click
"create filter with this search" to go to next screen, choose the
"New label" option under
"Apply the label" drop-down and name it. Check the box next to the
"Create filter" button before clicking it and it'll apply the label to all the old e-mails too. I usually also check the
"Never send it to Spam" box too. And done, it'll get them in the future unless they changes the from address. It takes significantly longer to write the directions than to actually do it. Probably around five seconds max to create a filter this way.
I understand the lack of desire/motivation to invest the time setting it up, but you can easily do this when you open one to read. Just do one or two a day and after a while you'll have them all. On my main account I have hundreds of labels and at least a hundred filters, but I did this over
years so I never spent any large chunks of time creating them.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I can tell that you a person who has all of her ducks in a row in life.
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Hah, I'm glad I give that impression but I have serious depression and health problems (which also exacerbate the depression) so I have zero motivation nowadays. Took me four days to get myself to clean my glasses this week.
