I work with a lot of people that also seem to struggle with this. Personally, I don't really get what's so hard about it. I have a few rules that filter out to

I work with a lot of people that also seem to struggle with this. Personally, I don't really get what's so hard about it. I have a few rules that filter out total automated garbage/noise. That leaves me with a few hundred emails each day - I spend 5 or 10 minutes scanning through those looking for important people/topics and click into them if they seem interesting, and after I've done that, I mark all as read... and do it all again the next day. Often, I find something that is interesting/important, and I chat it to other people in the team, i.e., "RE: Question from important client about new feature not working <---- Did you see this email?" and they're like no... I didn't get that, who was it sent to? It was sent to <list@organization.com>, of which you are a member... if you did not receive it, please raise a ticket with the mail people... ooh, yes, found it! The impression I have is that these people are not willing to even spend 5 or 10 minutes a day scanning, or they have attempted to set up an elaborate and brittle set of rules to do that for them and failed.