#2. Re-inventing the inbox - Your inbox is like your desktop. It’s your staging area for things you need to deal with or don’t want to forget. The rest of the emails in there should be archived or deleted. It all depends on your own behavior, of course, but you shouldn’t have more than twenty-or-so emails in your inbox at any given time. Sure, you can have a thousand if you want, but you’d be neglecting the whole point of the Gmail inbox and the archive button. Don’t be afraid to archive something immediately after you’ve read it, or if you already know what it’s going to say. Archiving doesn’t hide it away in some locked vault, never to be seen again. It simply removes it from your inbox. Your inbox should just contain emails from people who are actively waiting on a response, or if there’s a bill notification or some other reminder you don’t want to forget.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Finally someone feels the same way i do about the inbox! i don't know if i got that from you or if we are just two smart minds that think the same. I only keep things in the inbox that still need action or reminder; everything else is archived. I can't stand a million emails in there, it gets too cluttered.
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