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

[sandorski]

Read, but "Read" is relative.

 

[BudAshes]

According to Outlook I have 32436 new emails, well 32439 as of finishing this sentence. I'll get on those at some point I'm sure...

 

[BudAshes]

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.

That is idiotic. Email is just a database of conversations that is easily searchable. I go back and search old emails all the time. Now I do archive emails over 2 years old but I can still search that archive if I need to.

 

[snoopy7548]

I'd tell that boss to stop micromanaging me. Telling me how to manage my own e-mails. What a dick.

 

[Platypus]

Inbox zero for life

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Nothing unread, most important things retained for CYA. Not particularly organized except in specific circumstances.

 

[DigDog]

i check my emails *at least* twice a day but generally much more frequently.

 

[kt]

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.

That's kind of shortsighted. On many occasions being able to dig up emails from years ago have saved me. They are called CYA (cover your ass) emails.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I have 3796 unread email in my work email inbox. 2184 in my personal inbox.

 

[sactoking]

That's kind of shortsighted. On many occasions being able to dig up emails from years ago have saved me. They are called CYA (cover your ass) emails.

I don't think it meant delete all emails over 2 months old, it meant delete all UNREAD emails over 2 months old.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I don't think it meant delete all emails over 2 months old, or meant delete all UNREAD emails over 2 months old.

This. He means UNREAD email - not email that you actually read and filled away for later.

The point is if you're someone that has 3000 unread email... you're never going to catch-up. So it's not worth trying and it's better to just start over.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Most of it is unread. I don't have time to look at marketing or bullshit emails and click unsubscribe.

 

[kt]

I don't think it meant delete all emails over 2 months old, or meant delete all UNREAD emails over 2 months old.

Yea, not sure if that made it any better. In fact, maybe even worse.

 

[sactoking]

Autocorrect error has been remedied.

 

[RPD]

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.

So instead of just deleting it you actually preview it just never open it (otherwise how would you know it has nothing to do with you)?