This is good advice. Hotmail (of all things) has a feature I wish Gmail would implement, similar to the author's suggestion but I think far more useful -- for e

This is good advice. Hotmail (of all things) has a feature I wish Gmail would implement, similar to the author's suggestion but I think far more useful -- for e-mail newsletters that you specify, it will only keep the most recent. The other thing I would recommend is having separate accounts for work and personal e-mail. I understand that for some people, there's a fair amount of overlap. But even if you just use an alias for work e-mail and put it into a folder in your regular inbox, that separation of concerns can make it a lot less overwhelming.