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A simple solution

I’m not sure how this works with the whole rigorous honesty thing, but I’ve found an effective way to deal with email overload.

“I’m sorry. I have accidentally deleted all of your previous correspondence. If urgent, please resend at your earliest convenience.”

Make this a signature and you have a one-click solution for all of those people you were going to get right back to. That’s it. Two sentences and all of your email woes are solved.

Nobody ever, hardly, resends. Do this enough and they don’t even want to talk to you anymore. It’s magic. Between Google spam filtering and this handy response, my email takes all of three minutes a day to manage.