It wasn't so bad. It took a couple big pushes of effort, but the rewards were great. Going through the inbox instead of just deleting or archiving everything ma

It wasn't so bad. It took a couple big pushes of effort, but the rewards were great. Going through the inbox instead of just deleting or archiving everything made me find a good 20-30 things I really should have dealt with, and I did. Beyond that, I just handled my inbox when I was tired and wasn't able to do anything more meaningful - it cut my Hacker News time down a little bit for one month, and now I've got a clean inbox that never gets to two pages long. That's really quite valuable for me.