Jul 18, 2007
Empty inbox
What a feeling - I managed to get down to zero emails in my inbox. We all work differently but I usually feel stressed out about having emails in my inbox, just sitting there. Sure there are things that I have to do that are not urgent but still have to be done. What I usually do is add a star to them (I use GMail) and then I have a to-do list in Starred Items. But everyday I try to clear out my inbox because I know the longer I leave something in there, the more it’s just going to add up. There are five messages left today, another three tomorrow, and soon I have hundreds. And taking care of those old messages takes time to go through. So what I try to do is get them out of the inbox as soon as possible just by attaching a label to them and archiving them, adding a star, or just deleting them. I like that I can keep all my emails forever in GMail - I currently use close to 2GB of my space - but I also have to get the emails out of the inbox as soon as I can.