it's a mixture of: conversations: conversations I need to monitor but not necessarily do anything about; conversations I need to respond to; conversations I wa

it's a mixture of: conversations: conversations I need to monitor but not necessarily do anything about; conversations I need to respond to; conversations I was added to for some stupid reason and will be unable to remove myself from so they just need to be muted; conversations not yet sorted into any of the aforementioned categories alerts: some very urgent, some just background noise anti-alerts: sometimes I'd like to be notified if eg my daily company revenue report doesn't show up! action items: things I need to follow up with on a variety of dates in the future; unfortunately, most email clients don't have a "remind me of this on a calendar date" easily integrated to their messages spam, shopping email, mailing lists, requests from people I don't know and haven't emailed before, shopping confirmations, notices from my credit cards, skiing discussions from my ski house, invitations to a friend's birthday party, etc. most email clients basically don't give any tools to support the above workflows so I have to hold all that state in my head and stuff falls through the cracks.