Yesterday I spend several hours cleaning my email inbox, and got rid of hundreds of unread emails – and cleaned several folders I had created. I didn’t get to zero emails in my inbox, but with this pace I’m there (hopefully) very soon and tend to keep that way. It’s a wonderful feeling to see an empty folder (instead of a folder with hundreds of unread emails).
How many unread emails you have in your email box?
How often you clean your email?
I don’t have any unread emails but I have hundreds that I have read. I really should go in and clean up but I never get to it.
Yeah I don’t delete them if they are important and I may need to refer to them which happens quite a lot especially for work ones. I just archive them.
I never delete any mails. I still have all mails up from 1995.
It’s good to have a database based e-mail system (Lotus Notes) where you can just cut/paste mails to different databases, or let it automatially archive them.
I used to have over a thousand in my GMail inbox (and that was just unread), but I found this article: http://putthingsoff.com/inbox-heaven/ and now it’s almost always empty :)
0. Every day.
I still get spam on one account despite filters. I also unsubscribed from practically everything about a year ago and this just minimises the processing I need to do.
I usually try to keep my inbox as clean as possible, because after I put off reading/ replying to one message, it becomes two, then three, then four, then…
I keep it as simple as possible, but keep it organized:
Inbox (Personal Email)
+Facebook
+Facebook Test Dummy (For testing FB Apps ;) )
Text Messages (I have an email text message system set up)
Webmaster
+Misc Newsletters… (Only two actuallty get split from webmaster)
Right now I have one in webmaster. In my newsletters, I have one with 237, I unsubscribed from it a while back. In another I have 339 (TechRepublic) which I read occasionally when I see something that particularly catches my eye.
I’d say I keep myself pretty dang clean.
~DtD