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Don’t you wish you can just delete your Inbox?

For a couple of years now, I normally receive over a hundred of emails every day. That does not include the questions and messages I get thru Twitter and Facebook.

It gets worse when I’m on vacation or on a trip where I don’t have enough time to go online. Emails get buried very easily and I wish I can just delete my Inbox altogether.

As of this writing, I have 595 unread emails and a few hundred more un-answered ones. So sorry if you’ve emailed and I haven’t answered back… yet.

P.S. To those who asked, I actually have a personal assistant who helps me out with answering emails, among others. However, I think it only covers like 10% of the emails — ones that can be easily answered and need not have to be confirmed with me. The others are business communications, reader inquiries and people asking for advise, etc.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

29 Comments

tagum city lot for sale says:

14 years ago

Maybe it’s time you hire a secretary to manage/answer all these messages?

:)
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Andre says:

14 years ago

That’s what features like the “Gmail Priority Inbox” are for. I’m pretty sure a couple of hundred emails in those inbox of yours are not urgent, such as emails or inquiries from dear readers of yours.
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Da says:

14 years ago

put up a Communication Protocols like this guy- http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402879/CommunicationProtocols
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Arnold Gamboa says:

14 years ago

Ah, that’s probably the reason why you haven’t replied bac to my email :D
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Glenn | GLICH'S LIFE says:

14 years ago

So I am lucky that I got a reply from you. Haha! The life of a techie god like you!
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Ben says:

14 years ago

That is why I always have my mails filtered and sorted into folders.
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Manny | Job Philippines says:

14 years ago

it’s really hard to answer emails that much. Imagine over 100 emails per day.
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Benchmark33 says:

14 years ago

and good thing there are message box here…atleast you guys can also give help to yuga asnwere their queries…. :-)
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Winziph says:

14 years ago

grabe ang dami naman niyan.
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USB Cleaner says:

14 years ago

Wow Abe,
In these times you still receive emails at that amount? I usually only have 1 for smart bro bill reminder hehe.
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la lang! says:

14 years ago

wala na bang ibang topic?, pati inbox may issue na rin!
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william cunanan says:

14 years ago

first time ko mag comment.. binibisita ko lagi website mo, tinitignan mga pangarap ko. wag ka magsasawang mag post, para tuloy tuloy pa rin mga pangarap ko. d lang sakin, pati ang iba na rin. hehe. no wonder you get that much emails, maganda kasi website mo talaga na to.
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archive says:

14 years ago

Ahh! Yugatech is getting boring, there is the gmail boss yuga and it has an archive, you can still search for your archive mails instead you need it
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weh says:

14 years ago

weh, @bossyuga pati spam ina-answer mo na ngayon? hehehe
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NemOry says:

14 years ago

What if you hire an assistant to read important inboxes and to inform you and delete the nonsense ones.hehe or if you can’t hire any, im here sir. Haha
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no to inbox says:

14 years ago

deleting your inbox = deleting your email account
that simple
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binaryboy says:

14 years ago

it simply translates that yuga has got so many subscribers. yuga serves as a good role model for bloggers who want to earn money online.
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drealmarlon says:

14 years ago

Kahit nga yung Google nagrereklamo din sa dami ng facebook email.
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khen says:

14 years ago

Oo nga nakakainis yung facebook emails na yan. Sobrang dami sa inbox ko.huhuhuhu. Pero pwede naman i-adjust yung setting ng facebook notification emails tulad nito: http://www.affordablecebu.com/load/internet/how_to_disable_facebook_updates_or_notifications_in_your_email/14-1-0-465 – makakatulong ito ng malaki para ma-prioritize ninyo kung anu-ano yung mga mahahalagang mga emails.
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Andre says:

14 years ago

hows your SMS inbox?
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Calvin says:

14 years ago

yun ibang email inquiries mo nafifilter sa akin kasi hindi ka raw sumasagot. dapat paswelduhin mo na ako. hehehe. :P
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vince says:

14 years ago

uso na ngayon ang crowdsourcing. Just refer all your emails asking for help or advice that can be directed by answers to a popular say filipino message board. madami ang sasagot sa kanila doon

I answer and ask a lot of questions on www,tipidpc.com and www. pinoydsl.net
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vince says:

14 years ago

typo, i’ll again

uso na ngayon ang crowdsourcing. Just refer all your emails asking for help or advice that can be ANSWERED BY OTHERS to a popular say filipino message board. madami ang sasagot sa kanila doon

I answer and ask a lot of questions on www,tipidpc.com and www. pinoydsl.net
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facebookie says:

14 years ago

re FB emails, why dont you make a dedicated email instead? thats what i did
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NineSwordz says:

14 years ago

^ that’s what I did too.. gmail for Facebook flood & attachments, and yahoo for my personal email.
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Jonaflormicfren says:

14 years ago

It’s an opportunity to be followed. http://iloveyou-mydear.blogspot.com/
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Mito says:

14 years ago

regarding facebook emails, what I did is instead of making new account, I created a folder for facebook emails and set up filter that will directly put all facebook emails to that folder. gaya sa outlook. mas manageable. :)
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rado says:

14 years ago

gmail filters is a very useful feature. I also use it to filter FB emails just as how Mito described
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