Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written a great deal about email, and part of the reason for this is because dealing with email can take up so much of an academic professional’s job. I wrote a few posts about how to “hack your inbox.” Brian’s covered managing email while on leave. Amy has sung the praises of a tool called OtherInbox while Kathleen has explained the usefulness of TaskForce.
However, what I’ve been thinking about lately (as my Gmail account nears the limit of free storage space, believe it or now), is this question: “Can I just delete all of these old emails, or is there a good reason to hold on to them?” And if I decide to hold on to them, I need to figure out how to create some sort of archive... I think. I’d like to hear what other people do in this situation.
How about you? Do you archive your old email somehow? Why or why not? And if your answer is yes, how do you go about doing so? Please let us know in the comments.
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