Inspired by Nick Cernis and his blog post on Inbox Heaven, I’ve decided that I’ll try a partial implementation of his system:
- Attempt to remove messages from my Gmail inbox as fast as possible. Star items that need immediate followup and delete items I’ll never reference again.
- Check the “Starred” list daily, at minimum.
- Use labels to track messages that are of interest to me that I may want to reference later (which is what I was previously using starred messages for).
Reading the Inbox Heaven post inspired me to go on a deletion binge and remove a few thousand e-mail messages from my account (most – if not all – of them list messages from back when I monitored Prius e-mail lists).
Alas, this won’t apply to my UW accounts, since the UW uses IMAP for mail retrieval.
I’m glad you’re trying this! I subscribed to the “inbox zero” way of doing things several months back and couldn’t imagine any other way.
I’m glad you’re trying this! I subscribed to the “inbox zero” way of doing things several months back and couldn’t imagine any other way.