Productivity, Clean Inboxes, Forum Software Upgrade
This weekend was fairly productive, accented with a blizzard that moved in today. While outside admiring the pretty painted whiteness, my hawk, Comanche, decided to pay a visit on a nearby tree. I didn’t get any really good pictures though, damn branches.
I upgraded 4 different forums from old software that was no longer being updated as the company went completely commercial with their forum software, to a free software that -is- being developed, and is more secure (complete with captcha registration). This took several hours to convert all 4 forums, but in the end I think it’ll prevent tons of problems they were having previously. (If you’re looking for some free well-developed forum software, check out: simplemachines.org.)
I scanned in a bunch of Grove documents into .pdf format and hacked away at organizing the website files as well as the witan notes I have. I scrubbed the bathroom. And I did something that I kept debating with myself whether I should do or not. I deleted all 2,282 emails that have been sitting in my “Sent” folder to go through (just in case I needed them), and moved all 993 documents from my Inbox into a “_TOGOTHROUGH” folder, to which I’ve gone through so far reducing down to 529 emails. I’ll continue to hack away at these emails, complete tasks that have just been sitting there, and eventually delete the folder entirely.
I read somewhere that suggested moving everything out of your inbox into a separate folder, because it will make you more inclined to go through new documents coming in, in order to keep that inbox clear. And it’s definitely right. I no longer feel overwhelmed with a huge list of things “to be done” when checking my email, as it’s all tightly compacted away in its own folder. A folder which I can go through at my leisure to complete tasks. I’ve also rid myself of any obligation to respond to old emails that were missed. There’s no need to worry about them anymore anyway.
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