One thing that annoys me about new Google “Buzz” service is that it dumps lots of stuff into my Inbox. Here’s quick way to filter it out until Google comes back to its senses:
- Open any of buzz messages in your Inbox
- Pick “Filter messages like this” from “More Actions” button/link on top-right portion of message window
- The form will open. Type “Buzz from” including quotes into Subject field. Or you can use label:buzz
- Click “Test Search” you should see your buzz messages only
- Click “Next Step”
- Put check-mark into “Skip Inbox”
- Optionally you can assign label to this filter. You won’t be able to pick “buzz” but you can use something like “whadabuzz” or anything else
- Optionally select “Also apply filter to N conversations below”.
- Click “Create Filter”.
- Return to Inbox. Buzz messages should be gone
I love your remark about Google returning to its senses. I feel like I'm drowning in emal. My inbox is shameful, absolutely shameful, and that sort of attitude laps over into the rest of my day. So I'm trying to get a handle on it all and take control of my workday. In this effort, I'm taking a look at Michael Linenberger's "Master Your Workday Now," with an emphasis on controlling the chaos. Among other things, the book covers how to overcome e-mail overload with effective e-mail approaches. It's really about task management and he says the in-box is a terrible way to manage tasks. And he has fixes for that! (Linenberger wrote a best-seller on Microsoft Outlook.) I don't use that program and you don't either — but he knows his stuff.)
Oh — I forgot! Thanks for the tips you bave.
Liz, I almost marked this as spam, but what a hack