I love ActiveRain (duh), but the problem I am having is that the more I participate the more wrapped into it I become. Before I know it, I am following four or five active blog posts and my email inbox is going crazy with New Comment notices. This presents a problem with me because my email inbox essentially directs the flow of my life. When a new email comes in, I do what I can to review it and respond to it immediately. Well you can see where I am going with this; 100+ notifications of New ActiveRain comments in a day can start to overload my circuits.
So yesterday I decided to only check email 2x per day. HAHAHAAHAHA... That plan lasted oh about 15 minutes.
Going back to the drawing board today I came up with a very simple, yes obvious, solution. I would create an email filter for my new ActiveRain comments that puts them into a special folder and marks them "as read".
Now I can keep in the loop when new comments are posted on blog posts that I am watching, while avoiding the need to open my email client ever two minutes.
