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Besides being too much for me, I'm not sure it's a good thing. I'm not sure if making random (or all) actions in random apps 'satisfying' (or maybe rewarding an

by atleta 4y ago

Besides being too much for me, I'm not sure it's a good thing. I'm not sure if making random (or all) actions in random apps 'satisfying' (or maybe rewarding and thus causing a dependency and a distraction at the same time) is a good thing. Despite the obvious good intentions of the post. Like the obsession around inbox zero, if it's still a thing. (I remember, my then-business-partner discovered it during the early days of our first startup. He freaked out that I had tens of thousands of unread emails. I saw inbox zero-ing as an unproductive obsession. Though we had very different roles, me working mostly on the technology.)

viceroyalbean 4y ago
As someone with an inbox-zero obsession, I don't pretend to have any logical justification for it, I just really don't like seeing those unread markers. Same for any app that shows any kind of "look here" marker. For my personal email, inbox-zero generally means actually reading most emails I get, because I aggressively unsubscribe/mark spam/auto-delete emails I don't want to get. My work email gets a lot more emails I don't need to look at, so there is a lot of automatic filtering and "mark all as read". My main practical use-case is that I will leave emails unread intentionally if I can't deal with them at the moment. If I had thousands (or even dozens) of unread emails I'd have to track those separately.