Quick Question

[bertine]

How many emails do you have in your email inbox RIGHT NOW?

I have 21 in my work inbox and 17 in my personal inbox.


I just don't get people that sit with thousands of emails in their inbox. How do you remember what you need to do?

Comments

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I am actually trying to address my ridiculous work inbox now. At the beginning of the week I had 800+ emails in there. Each day I've been cutting it down; I'm now at 250. I hope to get it to around 100 today, but I may hit a wall because I tend to save many emails to guide my billing. I also have folders they are categorized into so they're not really DELETED, which may be cheating, but I often need to refer to them later.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I only delete emails that are system generated and aren't at all important and I keep those for a week. However, they never hit my inbox.

Sometimes my work inbox grows to the 150 emails size and that is what when I take an evening and just address stuff. It usually happens when I am really busy or had too many headaches.

Your system seems to work. I just don't get the people that never move an email to another folder or delete them. Yesterday I noticed that one of my coworkers has 24,000 emails in her inbox.