Comments on: Things I don’t understand: Fake Inbox Zero

By: John Costello

John Costello — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:02:50 +0000

I take action on these kinds of messages (the ones I know I will never look at) the first time I see them by creating a filter: apply a label, remove from inbox, mark as read. Done.

By: Jon Hendry

Jon Hendry — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:59:39 +0000

This is pretty much how I deal with it.

My desktop Mail.app inbox contains 10,700-some messages. I flag a few that are important in some way.

Every couple of years I sort by sender or use smart mailboxes to do mass deletes, but it’s not a high priority.

By: Daniel Reeves

Daniel Reeves — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:47:22 +0000

I totally see where you’re coming from. Here’s what I think you’re missing (or rather not missing, since I very much envy you if you don’t have this problem!), to quote myself from http://messymatters.com/snooze …

My email is dysfunctional. I keep things in my inbox because I can’t afford for them to go out of sight, out of mind — but then that’s exactly what happens. They get buried deeper and deeper in my inbox by all the other messages I delusionally think I’m going to deal with.

By: Kazimieras

Kazimieras — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:28:50 +0000

You’re lying. You already took and action on your email. You looked it up.