Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 07 October 2012
Two obvious features of note: school involves a lot of email, and everyone goes on vacation in July.
In the e-maelstrom
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climate change activist and science communicator; photographer; mapmaker — advocate for a stable global climate, reduced nuclear weapon risks, and safe human-AI interaction
Go and look at your inbox right now. Go on, I’ll wait. Done? Good. For the majority of you, over 80% of the email you receive is something called graymail. It’s not spam, but it’s also not higher priority messages from friends, family or colleagues that you’re more likely to read and respond to. Newsletters, social updates and daily deals are all examples of graymail and left unattended they can take over your inbox pretty quickly.
With another month of data:
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 04 November 2012
Note: these statistics refer only to my personal email account, not to my University of Toronto account or my Toronto350.org account.
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 30 December 2012
Note: Incoming email went down because everyone is on holiday, while outgoing emails jumped because I send Christmas cards that way
Distraction control
Another summer dropoff in incoming volume
Emails sent and received 2012-02-27 to 2013-09-13
Emails sent and received 27FEB2012 – 06OCT2013
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 03 November 2013
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 01 December 2013
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 29 December 2013
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 26 January 2014
Emails sent and received – 27 February 2012 to 23 February 2014
See also: Breakdown of pending emails