Saturday, December 01, 2012

tracking patches and information overload

If you want to get into linux, in deep, then you must subscribe to different mailing lists. I have been a member of atleast a dozen mailing lists for sometime and you know what its almost impossible to read all the mail that comes your way.

This is where gmail-foo needs to save the day!

1. Organize by labels. Have labels for everything possible - patches, different mailing list, different topics etc..
2. Then use gmail's search to the extreme. Search for labels, unread mails, from: and subject: in combo. Read only what makes sense! Mark everything else as read or just delete them!

Even then its impossible to read all email.