{"id":1120,"date":"2011-12-31T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masteryourworkday.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2011-12-31T08:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:55:03","slug":"research-showing-foldering-is-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/research-showing-foldering-is-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Showing Foldering is Too Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 31, 2011<\/p>\n<p>One of my major teachings for e-mail management is to stop using 10, 20, 30, (100?) topic-named folders to file your mail. I\u2019ve always claimed doing so is too slow to file and too slow to find things. I provide quicker and better alternatives in my Outlook books (with smart ways of using Instant Search being one of the main ones).<\/p>\n<p>Well, IBM Research now backs me up. Here is a formal research study that shows just how slow folder filing is compared to using a search tool at search time. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.ucsc.edu\/%7Eswhittak\/papers\/chi2011_refinding_email_camera_ready.pdf\">http:\/\/people.ucsc.edu\/~swhittak\/papers\/chi2011_refinding_email_camera_ready.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 31, 2011 One of my major teachings for e-mail management is to stop using 10, 20, 30, (100?) topic-named folders to file your mail. I\u2019ve always claimed doing so is too slow to file and too slow to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/research-showing-foldering-is-too-slow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}