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What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
by mcmc 16y ago
What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
- markkat 16y agoI'm tidy. I don't have any. My wife on the other hand... I think you either have 0 or 10K+.
- phillmv 16y agoI don't know how people can withstand that. At 1k+ messages you might as well declare email bankruptcy and regain a meaningful counter.
- estel 16y agoI've done this twice now. I'm sure there was some important stuff in my "Archive all unread emails" click, but I sure as hell wasn't going to check.
- daeken 16y agoI have none. I have a complex series of filters which direct mailing lists, automated emails, etc into separate labels which bypass the inbox. If it makes it to my inbox, it's important enough to be read quickly -- this generally means only about 50-100 emails a day.
- spooneybarger 16y agoWow. 50-100? I filter down to less than 10 a day. Either I'm much more aggressive with my filtering or you are far more of an important person than I am.
- ernestipark 16y agoMultiple inboxes and filters are from Heaven. Pretty sure that my unread message count is directly related to how busy/crazy my life is at the moment.
- julian37 16y agoIf you use Priority Inbox it will show you the number of unread messages in that, not in your normal inbox. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html
- catch23 16y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted, but I think there are quite a few of us who have at least a thousand unread messages. I have all kind of git commit messages that show up in my inbox that I don't always mark as read, not to mention all the mailing lists I subscribe to that aren't all in filters....
- camiller 16y agoCommit messages and successful build/test messages automatically get set to read by a filter for me.
- synotic 16y agoIn addition to my normal commit and mailing filters, I set up one filter called "Non-direct" that's effectively "something that's not addressed directly to me and doesn't fall under any other filter." That means that the only things that show up in my inbox are emails directly relevant to me. It turns out I only get around 5 personal e-mails a day out of the 100+ I actually get. Which could be read either way :).
- spooneybarger 16y agoI NEVER have more than 5 unread messages in my inbox. I have TONS that get filtered and archived to various labels but those are all mailing lists etc. But my inbox never has more than 5 unread messages and maybe 2-3 deal with soon messages. Unless of course I go on vacation and then I have an hour or two to get back to NORMAL.
- camiller 16y agoI user Gmail's "Priority In-box" feature and my priority section never has more than 5-10. Sometimes I let the other part get a little unruly when I am busy. I did use the option to add a section for "unread" messages before the rest of the mailbox.
- statictype 16y agoHow many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox? Most people. If you have 10k+ unread messages, it's time to introduce some filters to mark them as read.
- BrandonM 16y agoI currently have 9 emails in my Inbox total, and that's a lot for me.