Everyday, I struggle to get through the constant stream of incoming emails. Last year, I received over 13,500 emails that I never got a chance to read. So far, this year, I’ve managed to keep my inbox close to zero. To do this, I scan some emails quite quickly. Generally, I try to delete those that don’t need saving, and filing the rest to appropriate files. Some emails get left in the inbox as something I need to respond to or write about, and some even get flagged for special attention.

Yet even with that, there are a lot of emails that should get special attention, that I am just unlikely to get to. This month, there are currently 111 read emails in my inbox that deserve some sort of attention. 43 have been specially flagged. There are 188 emails in my inbox from last month, with 86 of them specially flagged. Many are things that I want to highlight on my blog or perhaps work up a story on, yet many will not get their full stories.

So, it is time for spring cleaning. This blog post will note some of the things that I’m watching, but may never get a chance to explore as closely as I would like.