Comments on: I’m a Darn Proud Cleaner (Are You?)

By: Jim Perry

Jim Perry — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:08:45 +0000

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.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:27:00 +0000

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.

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:35:49 +0000

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.

By: MichaelJWilliams

MichaelJWilliams — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:07:13 +0000

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 :)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:37:25 +0000

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.

By: DtD Software

DtD Software — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:34:49 +0000

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