The point of inbox zero is a feeling of getting things done and getting positive reinforcement form it, as well as an information organizing method: what's in y

The point of inbox zero is a feeling of getting things done and getting positive reinforcement form it, as well as an information organizing method: what's in your inbox is (part of) your ToDo list. Like joshklein I do not bother with moving messages out of inbox - for me they are just a stream. However I mark with a star (in gmail), flag (in Outlook) or mark as unread all the messages that require follow-up action I did not do immediately. And sometimes I do a wholesale archiving, and only in short moments after that my inbox is zero or near that.