 Inbox Zero, Anyone else do this? |
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| Inbox Zero, Anyone else do this? |
 Jan 31 2008, 10:00 AM
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 Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35  |
If you aren't familiar with the concept: http://www.43folders.com/izero
Basically, you keep your inbox count at 0. I started doing this about a month ago and really, really like it. I have a slightly more elaborate folder setup since I need to keep client e-mails separate but the concept is the same. I do not leave my e-mail open and only check it every few hours. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Jan 31 2008, 10:12 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
I don't keep my inbox count at 0, but I rarely let more than 15-20 accumulate. Both with personal and work email. People who have hundreds of emails in their inbox confuse me.
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Jan 31 2008, 11:19 AM
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 Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
...I need to go through my inbox and start deleting.
I have 235 messages, some almost 4 years old. =P -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 11:23 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
You confuse me, Zach.
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Jan 31 2008, 11:49 AM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 1,591 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 31 |
i have 0 in my inbox. when one comes in, i either reply, put it in a folder marked 'to reply' or delete.
-------------------- Don't sweat the petty, pet the sweaty.
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Jan 31 2008, 12:03 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (cmac @ Jan 31 2008, 11:49 AM)  i have 0 in my inbox. when one comes in, i either reply, put it in a folder marked 'to reply' or delete. Yep that's my system, except I have the "action" in there as well (add appointment to a calendar, finish a piece something I need to do, etc.). -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Jan 31 2008, 12:40 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
Here at work I have several different folders and rules set up, but at home I just leave em. /shrug. I use outlook w/gmail and have the setting "leave msgs on server" so if I reformat my comp or anything like that I don't lose all my old mail. I don't get all that much email though really.
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Jan 31 2008, 02:06 PM
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 From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
Interesting. I usually try to do that, but sometimes I have a few accumulate.
-------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Jan 31 2008, 07:05 PM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
I used to be so anal about my inbox, and I had the 0 system going on with a bunch of folders. Then, my account which is with yahoo started getting madd spam so now I have like 800 emails in my inbox. Whatever. I was just pissed off the day i went to my account and they had deleted everything...including the shit in folders; but 2 days later I already had 200 emails again. Seems they deleted my emails but not the fucking problem. My texas state account is too much to handle as far as folders since just about everything i get is important. I just delete what isnt important.
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Jan 31 2008, 09:31 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,499 Joined: 23-February 06 From: El Paso Texas Member No.: 32 |
i'm a email packrat at work
I have rules setup for emails from certain people/depts go to certain folders i don't really care what's in my inbox i just mark em as read i have every email from work for the past 3+ years, i just archive based on year then i have MSN desktop installed at work so i can easily find all my emails in my PSTs -------------------- |
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Feb 1 2008, 01:15 AM
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 GORILLA FLUFFER  Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
average about 75 most the time. get about 30 new real emails a day.
--------------------  QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM) but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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Feb 1 2008, 07:53 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
I guess I get too much e-mail for me not to use a system like this. I hover around 500 work e-mails a day and maybe 10-20 personal e-mails. Of the work e-mails I get only 2-3% actually pertain to me.
-------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Feb 1 2008, 09:37 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 519 Joined: 27-June 07 Member No.: 1,288 |
QUOTE (Jessica @ Jan 31 2008, 07:05 PM) I used to be so anal about my inbox, and I had the 0 system going on with a bunch of folders. Then, my account which is with yahoo started getting madd spam so now I have like 800 emails in my inbox. Whatever. I was just pissed off the day i went to my account and they had deleted everything...including the shit in folders; but 2 days later I already had 200 emails again. Seems they deleted my emails but not the fucking problem. My texas state account is too much to handle as far as folders since just about everything i get is important. I just delete what isnt important. You said "madd" lolz. QUOTE (FORSAKENR320 @ Feb 1 2008, 01:15 AM) average about 75 most the time. get about 30 new real emails a day. You know 29 of those 30 are chain letters you homo. -------------------- Fuckmuffin. That word and muffintop are the two coolest things I've ever seen on this place. What would happen if a fuckmuffin fucked a chick with a muffintop? That's a lot of muffins. A lot of motherfuffin muffuckins.
-TTULOW2 |
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Feb 1 2008, 10:19 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (Hartmann @ Feb 1 2008, 07:53 AM) I guess I get too much e-mail for me not to use a system like this. I hover around 500 work e-mails a day and maybe 10-20 personal e-mails. Of the work e-mails I get only 2-3% actually pertain to me.  That's a lot! I got a lot more emails at my last job than here (I get < 6/day, typically), but nowhere close to 500. Maybe 100 if things were really in a panic. -------------------- |
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Feb 1 2008, 01:27 PM
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 Retired Funk-bringer Group: Moderators Posts: 2,656 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas Member No.: 14 |
I do "Unread Zero".
Leave everything in the inbox unless I have a filter to catch it (ie, school), but just mark it as read. -------------------- WAIT. I'm not finished.
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