OT: Unread emails?

[AngryScientist]

do you keep your inbox well pruned or let things run wild. i've had the same primary email for at least two decades and it's just chock full of stuff.

anyone beat me here?

[William]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

do you keep your inbox well pruned or let things run wild. i've had the same primary email for at least two decades and it's just chock full of stuff.

anyone beat me here?

I have a hotmail account that is like that. I've had it for many years and it continues to accrue emails. I'll have to check it and see if I've got you beat.







W.

[gasman]

Not even close. I do have a yahoo acct with 42,543 unread emails. My main acct with Comcast has about 1,100 unread in it.

Remind me to not email you

[Velocipede]

My junk mail is that bad but I rarely look at it cause it's 99% junk and most of it I put there on purpose. I take a chainsaw to the work email trees every week. If I don't it gets really bad. Everything gets thrown in the right folders and then I feel like I've accomplished something.

[YoKev]

how do you people live with yourselves

[kppolich]

Inbox Zero Here.

That would drive me crazy.

[2LeftCleats]

I prune daily but it still accumulates. Most of the remainder could eventually be trashed but that’s time consuming. My latest strategy is unsubscribing from sources that I no longer look at. My wife and I share the same email, so what she and I consider deletable sometimes results in irritation (hers).

[Likes2ridefar]

I use aN Edison focused box that I keep at zero, but the app is smart and learns what I don’t want to see so nearly all emails go to a different folder that I clear out occasionally.

I just don’t like the red badge showing anything other than nothing on my devices. Yes, you can remove that now but then I’ll never open the email app to check!

Edit: I spied on your apps and that clutter would drive me insane. Do you ever use something like garage band?

With the new iOS they have the app manager so I stopped using extra screens all together. It took a bit to get used to but now I prefer it.

[Dead Man]

"mark all as read" when i get a new phone... otherwise yea, id probably have many thousands under email notifications as well

and these days i get so few emails, 9/10 of them spam, i move them to my junk folder as they come in

i really hate seeing notifications on my home screen, so i have notifications turned off for pretty much everything but email, phone, and messages

[goonster]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

do you keep your inbox well pruned

Absolutely not, complete waste of time. What can't be found right away, I find via search or filer.

Now, the bad old days before effective spam filters, that was a different story . . . .

[sokyroadie]

Originally Posted by kppolich

Inbox Zero Here.

That would drive me crazy.

Yep +1,000,000 - easy peasy if you do it every day. If I had 132K I would just hit delete all and come back in a couple of days and make sure it was empty

[Tickdoc]

84k currently. I was up over 400k at one point but microsoft did something to trim them down.

I got into the habit of never deleting from when I traded watches. I would forget who I corresponded with or sold to and only knew those individuals form emails so it was easy to just keep them if I ever needed to look back. I'll bet 99% are unread and solicitation only.

[eippo1]

Pre pandemic, I used my Outlook inbox as a to do list and would archive when done with things. Unfortunately I can't do that remotely and need to focus on other stuff when I'm in these days. So mine is out of control and it's killing me.

[SlowPokePete]

I always subscribe to the idea of "handle things once."

Snail mail...junk goes in the recycling bin, what's important is kept aside and dealt with right away.

Email is no different.

My ex-wife used to put the day's mail in a pile, day after day, until it would be a multi-hours long project to go through it all.

Would take her a good 4-5 hours on her weekend days off.

The last check I sent her (my half of daughter's college tuition) didn't get cashed...I asked her about it, and she said I never sent it.

Wanna guess whether she had it or not?

I like to keep the parts of my life that I have control of in order.

That's what works for me.

SPP

[Bruce K]

There us stuff I keep for a while, some I keep forever, and lots that gets dumped right away or read and then dumped (UPS tracking notifications and such).

I can’t stand the clutter.

BK