Nah, that's not necessary. I had 700 emails in my inbox three months ago, and I got them down to 0 after about a month. I set milestones: -Inbox to 600 -Inbox

Nah, that's not necessary. I had 700 emails in my inbox three months ago, and I got them down to 0 after about a month. I set milestones: -Inbox to 600 -Inbox to 500 -Inbox to 400 -Inbox to 300 -Inbox to 200 -Inbox to 100 -Inbox to 70 -Inbox to 50 -Inbox to 30 -Inbox to 15 -Inbox to 10 -Inbox to 5 -Inbox empty I figured it'd get harder to clear down as it got closer to the bottom. In the beginning it was easy - search and archive newsletters, alerts, digests, and spam. Archive all emails from someone after I got off the phone with them and covered everything, but let the old request sit in the box. Archive all emails from ex-girlfriend. Etc. Interestingly, I had a lot of little milestones at the end, but it turns out it wasn't as hard as I thought: There were about 10 emails that I used a reminder for "general to do" that I added to a notepad file to-do list, and archived them. Then there was about 5 decisions where there was no particularly good decision and I didn't like my choices, so I just sacked up and picked one option or the other and did it. Like, one of them was canceling something that had an early cancel fee, and I'd been waffling on it, and I just said screw it and picked one way or the other. I don't even remember the details, which means I should have probably just picked the first time I looked at it. Anyways, email inbox can be overwhelming if it's big. Tackle it in chunks, almost make a game out of it. It's nice to keep crossing off things on the list... 700... 600... 500... 400... was quite a good feeling. It's nice to be organized, too.