2time Labs Podcast

Ever longed for a tool that could give you feedback on the health of your email inbox? Listen in as I take on the challenge of creating one from scratch. Here in the third and final episode in this series, I continue working with Dr. Michael Einstein to create an email health calculator. We take the lessons learned from the prior discussion and start by listing a hierarchy of concerns. They are listed here from 1-5 in rank order. 1. How many days of stored email are accumulated?  (read vs unread, subscribed vs non-subscribeds) 2. How old are these message? (read vs. unread) 3. How unique are these messages? (subscribed vs non-subscribeds) 4. How fast are they entering? (incoming email) 5. How complicated are they by being threaded? During the hiatus since the last episode, I drafted a weight for each measure and after playing with the tool we would be using, producing the following formula which we discussed in this episode. 0.25 x Left Behind Index (i.e. (Total messages in your in