I used to be obsessed with inbox zero. Every morning, I’d get to my desk and start triaging. Answering, archiving, flagging, ...

We’ve all faced the challenge of an overflowing inbox filled with unread messages, promotional emails, and reminders. This digital clutter can quickly feel overwhelming, even for the most organized ...

I used to think the unread count meant something terrible. Every time I opened my inbox, there it was. 4,372. Then 6,108. Then five digits. A tiny red bubble silently judged me every time I picked up ...

Do you ever find yourself just staring at the number of unread messages in your inbox and wondering where to even start? Are you overwhelmed by email? I feel your pain. In fact, I can quantify it. If ...

"Your email, your attention, and your life." Yep, that sums up our relationships with our email inboxes pretty much. Archiving everything away, as Killingsworth explains in her article "Zero Dark ...

“Inbox Zero” has been the holy grail of email productivity for years. For good reason, the concept is simple. By methodically processing each email, you’ll be able to keep your inbox empty or close to ...

Remember when email was supposed to make office workers’ lives easier? Yeah, that turned out well. In my business efficiency consulting work, the top complaint I hear is that everyone is spending too ...

A month ago, I embarked on an experiment in the form of a New Year's resolution: I resolved to adopt the practice of Inbox Zero, in which every day, every email in one's inbox must be moved into the ...

As a busy CEO and founder, I receive hundreds of emails every day and send around 50 myself. Yet at the end of the day, my inbox is empty. I follow a principle called Inbox Zero. No, I don’t have an ...

For many of us, the constant ping of inbox alerts and the 24-hour nature of today’s news cycle serve as a symbol for the stress of being constantly ON. If you could just get your inbox under control, ...

For years, I’ve marveled at co-workers’ inboxes. Some, like me, make a conscious effort to limit the number of unread emails (even if we don’t always reply to everyone) while others are perfectly ...

Whenever I tell people that I've decided to practice "inbox zero" they say one of four things (or some combination of all four): 1. "That is so 2007". (And they even give me a link to a 2007 Merlin ...