About a week or two ago, I came up with a way to organize the emails I get from Celebrate Lit for the books that I will be reviewing. I thought I would share it with you in case it would be a help.
I use Thunderbird as my email program on my computer. The following is my setup for Celebrate Lit:
Here is my "workflow" for handling the email: As I go through my emails and find books that I'm interested in reviewing, I fill out the application form. At the same time, I make a new subfolder under Applied and name it the title of the book. All emails referring to that book goes into that folder. When I receive my Welcome email with the date that my review is due, I rename the folder according to that due date (monthday to keep it in chronological order.....aaaaand I just realized I'll have to be extra careful when I have January/February due dates!), and I move the whole subfolder to the Pending folder. I separated August's book reviews into a separate subfolder called This Month so that I can quickly see what's coming up next (which will actually take care of January/February -- whew!). As I finish each book review, the whole subfolder goes to the xCompleted folder. The x in front is my shortcut for "archived" which basically means, "You'll probably never need this again, but just in case, this is where it is." The xMiscellaneous folder is for housekeeping-type emails from Celebrate Lit.
Bonus: You now know what's coming up on the blog! PS The Secret Sisters Club will feature a very special guest book reviewer! Aunt Kris will surely enjoy that one! ;-)
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