I like the ideas behind the post. My approach is similar except I do triage into a few different tags. A nice effect is that filters on incoming mail can do a l

I like the ideas behind the post. My approach is similar except I do triage into a few different tags. A nice effect is that filters on incoming mail can do a lot of this for you, like almost all automated emails can be tagged as such and checked over as convenient. (I'm not using gmail for this but I think you can do all this in gmail.)