Anybody practicing "inbox zero"? Thoughts?

[SlitheryDee]

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:hmm:

I mean they'll call me when I actually can take the call right then. Now if someone leaves me a message describing some kind of emergency I'll call them back, but I don't sweat the smaller stuff. Believe me, 90% of it is small stuff.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

I do a slightly modified version if Inbox Zero for both personal & business emails. I have a variety of filters set up to ensure that only pertinent email comes into my Inbox, I have a "Mass Mail" folder that all the other stuff goes into (which includes the CC & FYI emails, which I browse once or twice a day). Good stuff gets archived, crap gets deleted with no mercy.

I'm actually far worse at checking my actual physical mailbox, I only do it about once a week unless I'm expecting something.

 

[clamum]

I've got 0 unread in personal and work emails, though I guess that isn't the point of the "Inbox Zero" thing. Whenever a new email comes in, Outlook pops up a message and if I see it and have a second or two, will open it up and read it. I then basically follow the Delete/Do/Delegate/Defer thing, so I guess I kinda follow Inbox Zero.

EDIT: I get a ton of automated emails when several different solutions are built, successfully or not, but I have those filtered into their own folder. They're not really important to me anyway, at this point.

 

[Jeff7]

Sounds like you work at a nightmare of an inefficient company.

If someone called me for not responding to an email after 10 minutes I'd be like "bitch, email isn't instant messaging."

Probably a typical small business...with a fairly small technical department, for a company that uses electronics in all of its products. :\ (The company's workforce has grown by maybe 15% since I started there, but the engineering/technical crew by itself is only about 75% of what it was at that time.)


Hi...I'm Dilbert, except that the people I regularly work with in my department, supervisor included, are fully competent at what they do. This has played a big part in keeping me with the company.


Not all e-mails are "immediate response" sorts of things...but some always are.

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They're all read and responded to, of course. I just use the search and indexing functions in my mail client rather than organizing them into folders.

This. Oh god this.

I tend to see e-mails getting missed by those who have a separate folder for each person. When your name isn't on the first page of folders, alphabetically, and the recipient wasn't at the PC to see the notification, yours might not be seen for well over a day.
I love (good) indexing functionality...now that I've finally got a few key commands of Microsoft's Advanced Query Syntax memorized. (I still use Everything and Agent Ransack for finding files in Windows though, after they took Win7's indexing engine and bogged it down with something that makes DOS 6.22 look highly capable.)
Add in a tagging utility, and it makes finding things much easier.

 

[KMFJD]

We have a 90 day retention policy, i'm usually at around 500-800mb

 

[MustISO]

Improbable at my current position. I have about 20,000 emails in my inbox and about 2,000 of those are unread. I'd had to create a lot of rules to automate the storage of email but I do occasionally take email by sender and put it into archive folders by sender. Not sure how many work emails I get in a day but it's probably 60 - 70 on average. On a bad day, more than 100.

 

[SagaLore]

Probably a typical small business...with a fairly small technical department, for a company that uses electronics in all of its products. :\ (The company's workforce has grown by maybe 15% since I started there, but the engineering/technical crew by itself is only about 75% of what it was at that time.)


Hi...I'm Dilbert, except that the people I regularly work with in my department, supervisor included, are fully competent at what they do. This has played a big part in keeping me with the company.


Not all e-mails are "immediate response" sorts of things...but some always are.




This. Oh god this.

I tend to see e-mails getting missed by those who have a separate folder for each person. When your name isn't on the first page of folders, alphabetically, and the recipient wasn't at the PC to see the notification, yours might not be seen for well over a day.
I love (good) indexing functionality...now that I've finally got a few key commands of Microsoft's Advanced Query Syntax memorized. (I still use Everything and Agent Ransack for finding files in Windows though, after they took Win7's indexing engine and bogged it down with something that makes DOS 6.22 look highly capable.)
Add in a tagging utility, and it makes finding things much easier.

Yep me too. I have tens of gigabytes of emails that I can find very quickly. I look at all emails as they come in, and if I can't respond for awhile then I flag it.

I know other people that use many folders and inbox rules and they are almost always missing important stuff. "I never got that". grrrr

 

[wischeez]

I have about 15 or so emails in my gmail inbox. I really wish there was a folders feature for gmail (if there is, I don't know about it).

At work, I have thousands of emails. I sort them all into folders and keep it very organized. I regularly have to go back to one of my old emails (sometimes a year or two old) to evidence something to someone or back up my case. I try not to keep anything but the most pertinent emails that need to worked in my inbox, which is usually I'd say 40 or so.

Left side, scroll down, categories, manage labels

 

[Possessed Freak]

I archive my inbox into a yearly folder. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 25k emails. I do not read them all, most get auto sorted into their own folders but even then I don't read them all.

Any email that does not go into my spam folder is saved. Nothing is deleted, EVER.