Inbox Zero

[Pike]

Do you feel the need to have your email inbox clean and empty?

...because I don't.

According to Thunderbird I have 35912 emails in my inbox. They're all read, mind you. But I don't bother to delete them.

[Pumpkin]

I had too many so I got a new email. I try to keep this one neat and orderly~

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I have dozens of unread pages. My e-mails never seem to be for me.

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[Jess]

Unread emails make me stressed. Everything must be organised. At work I have like 50 different folders so I can file them once read.

[Aulayna]

On my Yahoo account, I have every mail dating back to 2001 when I first opened it!

[Shorty]

I have a little over 200 in my personal inbox that I need to sort into folders. I do this once or twice a year.

I obsessively keep my work inbox cleared because that is how I know I'm finished with whatever tasks comes with the email. I'm down to twelve sitting in there now, which is the lowest it's been since I started eight months ago.

[Shauna]

I keep all my inboxes nice and tidy.

[Parker]

i have 0 organisation of emails. there's a search function for a reason.

[Sephex]

I let it get out of hand for a couple of months and then I sort/delete stuff when I am bored.

[Miss Mae]

Basically if I don't delete it as soon as I receive it (ie. some newsletters), then it will be in my inbox forever. I keep a lot of emails so I can keep track of communication and use the search function to find them later. I have a small handful of folders for some sorting (mostly to keep my Twitter stats separate from my work emails or whatever) but mostly I just let my inbox fill up. It might be nice to start again at 0 some day but I'd rather waste my time doing other things that I actually care about.

[Alive-Cat]

I think I have about 3000 or more unread emails. They are all things I don't need to open like notifications from websites! Plus I rarely use emails to communicate anyway so I just neglect them a lot.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I'm like Mae in that if I don't delete it, I keep it forever. Most of what I delete is spam. My college email I kept literally ever email that I got though. This was able to save me a few times as I needed proof of things professors said, etc. I'd also send different projects or pieces of writing to myself with my college email, and that's still useful to me now when I need to try to find some piece of writing that's somehow gone missing.

[Christmas]

I have a few thousands unread emails. If I read them, most likely I will die from some voodoo curse.

[Ayen]

No. I have no desire to sort my email. It'd take too much time to sort through now anyway.

[Pike]

Yeah, I don't delete any of my email. I recall back in the day when email storage space was limited and deleting was actually a thing you had to do, but now we live in a glorious age of near unlimited storage capacity.