{"id":154,"date":"2018-05-17T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scm.keele.ac.uk\/staff\/stan\/?p=154"},"modified":"2018-05-17T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:35:37","slug":"e-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/e-postman\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I make my email arrive only once per day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The postman comes to my house once per day – if that. My email comes all the time, and it’s bad for productivity and focus. Happily, it’s possible to change that with gmail-based email in a very effective way.<\/p>\n

Three things need to happen to achieve it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Incoming email needs to be moved to a holding area until it’s postman time<\/em> and your messages get delivered.<\/li>\n
  2. The holding area should be hard to access, otherwise you’ll sneakily check your email too often!<\/li>\n
  3. The postman should deliver your messages (move them from the holding area to the inbox) according to some schedule. For me, that’s once per day at 0800.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To achieve the first two, create a new label<\/em> called __deferred<\/code> in gmail:
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    Then, make sure it’s hidden from you as well as possible:
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    Then create a new filter to move new mail to the deferred folder (here I use anything that’s not from me as the criterion):
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    Now, all you need is a way to schedule moving the emails from “deferred” to inbox when you want your postman to visit (point three, above). This requires you to create a script that runs on a schedule, using Google Scripts.<\/p>\n

    Rather than copy it out, I refer you to the original source<\/a> of this tutorial. Scroll down to “Creating the Google Script” and follow the instructions. One slight change is in accessing the triggers, just press the highlighted button:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The postman comes to my house once per day – if that. My email comes all the time, and it’s bad for productivity and focus. Happily, it’s possible to change that with gmail-based email in a very effective way. Three things need to happen to achieve it: Incoming email needs to be moved to a… Read More »How can I make my email arrive only once per day?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"as","author_link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/author\/stan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}