I'm generally pretty organized with my email, and I like to have nothing in my inbox except stuff I haven't acted on yet. However, a spurt of recent travel and work commitments meant I'd fallen into a familiar but dangerous pattern: grabbing information from emails I needed (and replying when necessary), but not filing or deleting them, and not checking out stuff that didn't look urgent. The end result: I suddenly had 1328 emails in my inbox, and 401 of them hadn't even been read. Sounds like a nightmare, but in reality it only took me an hour to get my inbox back under control. More »
