My gmail inbox used to be like that until a friend of mine, visiting me, got so annoyed with it he archived the lot (with my permission). Trying to stick at in

My gmail inbox used to be like that until a friend of mine, visiting me, got so annoyed with it he archived the lot (with my permission). Trying to stick at inbox zero after that has been a definite improvement, but it does make for painful periods when I'm away for a day and come back to a ton of unread rubbish I'd normally just archive as soon as it came in. Theoretically select-all-unread-archive is easier than interrupting focus, archive, resuming focus, but the mental burden of 200+ unread messages is not to be underestimated.