Are You An "Inbox is always read" or "Inbox has over 9000 new emails" type of person?

[s0me0nesmind1]

With Poll!


I'm an "Inbox is always read" person. I generally keep < 100 emails in my Inbox - and all are marked as read. Eventually every 2 weeks or so I go through from the bottom of the Inbox and file each of the old and read messages into some type of folder for documenting... or I delete them if it isn't important.


Wife on the otherhand is the opposite type where I see 1,000+ unread items in the inbox. Just seeing that shit is nails on a chalkboard to me. I always tell her that if you have shit that is 2+ moths old to just delete them. If it was important at the time it was sent than it certainly isn't important now... But she doesn't...


So what type are you ATOT?

 

[Aikouka]

Looks like I have around 50,000+ in my GMail. Only 9,000 is listed in my Inbox, and the others are in Promotions (31,869) and Updates (12,045).

 

[lxskllr]

Always read, but I don't work in a box, so my load's pretty low. If I was getting a constant stream of dumb shit, I could see me letting it stack up.

 

[nisryus]

I tried to read my emails once an hour. Usually my inbox is kept at 50 emails, old emails are archived into different folders.

 

[repoman0]

Always read. On my personal email any promotion or marketing bs gets unsubscribed and sent to spam immediately. At work it’s probably 1:5 actually read:mark as read and ignore ratio

 

[WelshBloke]

Im a "set up a bunch of rules so 90% of my emails get diverted into folders I never look in then people can phone me if they really need something" type of person.

 

[Exterous]

Low unread but I doubt I'd ever be at zero unread unless something really went wrong

 

[thestrangebrew1]

With Poll!


I'm an "Inbox is always read" person. I generally keep < 100 emails in my Inbox - and all are marked as read. Eventually every 2 weeks or so I go through from the bottom of the Inbox and file each of the old and read messages into some type of folder for documenting... or I delete them if it isn't important.


Wife on the otherhand is the opposite type where I see 1,000+ unread items in the inbox. Just seeing that shit is nails on a chalkboard to me. I always tell her that if you have shit that is 2+ moths old to just delete them. If it was important at the time it was sent than it certainly isn't important now... But she doesn't...


So what type are you ATOT?

Pretty much like you. Always read and get rid of stuff after a while. The wife is hopeless. I think she has like 40k unread emails or something stupid like that. That would drive me nuts.

 

[local]

Emails are ALWAYS read, unread is not quite a crisis event but certainly something I am near obsessive on getting to go away. I average about one email every 10 minutes or so and that is with about 2/3 of them diverted to trash piles I delete every few months. Over 66k in my inbox, all read, but that only counts the last five years.

 

[WelshBloke]

Im a "set up a bunch of rules so 90% of my emails get diverted into folders I never look in then people can phone me if they really need something" type of person.

My work rules folders.

 

[ultimatebob]

I have inbox rules that help me keep my main folder pretty clean. My sub folders are a dumpster fire, though. Someone thought that it would be good idea to e-mail IT every time a server restarts or an account gets locked out... the sub folders that catch those junk e-mails have tens of thousands of unread items.

 

[RPD]

Low, never understood how people can have so many unread emails. I keep emails unread until I can properly respond/close the issue at hand. Otherwise why have so many unread emails, just delete them.

 

[nakedfrog]

Work inbox has no unread emails. Personal accounts have a ton of unread emails.

 

[snoopy7548]

I never leave anything left unread, both personal and work. I'll even "read" spam e-mails at work just so I don't have the (#) next to the Junk folder; that little number probably bothers me more than the junk I get.

My personal e-mail sometimes gets up to 50 messages (all read), but I manage to keep it down to less than 30, sometimes getting it down to 20.

I let my work inbox grow until the following year, at which point I put all the contents into a 20xx archive. This year's inbox probably has about 3,500 e-mails up until now, and I've read all of them (and deleted a lot.) I don't use rules, but I've thought about it. People at work send too many e-mails. Bunch of goddamn idiots.

 

[zinfamous]

I try to keep it at ~80 unread

 

[Red Squirrel]

Under normal circumstances, I try to keep it clean. But if I go on vacation or I'm off for a while I'll have a couple thousand to go through.

 

[skyking]

24 unread, 63 total.
I try to prune it to one page of 50 at all times. Some shit does not need read, so it eventually ages out to either an organizational folder or the trash.

 

[Captante]

Inbox Has Little to No Unread Emails

 

[snoopy7548]

I'm more of an "inbox is always half-full" kind of guy.

 

[bbhaag]

This thread made me chuckle because my inbox is a HUGE mess. When I left work today it had over 1000 unread messages....sigh. It's ok though because I justify it by keeping everything else clean like our cars and our house. We all have our messes somewhere right? Mine just happens to be my work inbox. lol

 

[sdifox]

Low, never understood how people can have so many unread emails. I keep emails unread until I can properly respond/close the issue at hand. Otherwise why have so many unread emails, just delete them.

I get included in all sorts of email back and forth that has nothing to do with me.

And our DevOps love to mass mail about their deployments. Just put up a dashboard and if I need to know status of a region/service I'll go take a look.

 

[BurnItDwn]

33998 unread emails
95113 emails in unread clutter directory
> 100K in various alerts

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

My boss even sent us an email of an article that talks about "resetting" your inbox - he basically advocates for deleting everything thats more than 2 months old because whatever it was is clearly not important at this point or you would have received a call.

 

[nakedfrog]

I've definitely had times where it was extremely useful to refer back to emails older than two months.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I've definitely had times where it was extremely useful to refer back to emails older than two months.

I agree - but if you're not really going to read/sort them, then it doesn't serve much of a purpose.

I read them and file them away into folders so that if I do need that information in the future I can easily reference a general folder that it should be in. Searching through ALL my mail in 1 place wouldn't work though.