email is a million times easier to manage when your inbox is clean and you delete crap as soon as it arrives. just like physical mail. that first purge takes fo

email is a million times easier to manage when your inbox is clean and you delete crap as soon as it arrives. just like physical mail. that first purge takes forever, but once it's done, it's minutes per day in upkeep at worst. the biggest benefit of inbox zero, by far, is lightning fast response times. you almost never miss important comms, never fail to reply to important emails, and, most importantly, never have to rely on folders that you need to search through.