Although that's inboxes plural. And doesn't include the inbox on one of my home machines that I just use to slurp one of the others to when the account gets short on space. Technically it's an inbox; actually, it's an archive.
2 in my chiark inbox 7 in my gmail inbox 10 5 in my work inbox
The chiark ones need replying to, the gmail ones are mostly stuff I need to refer to in the immediate future (holiday and train bookings, house buying related), the work stuff is mostly the latter sort (though work-related obv). Actually a few of those were a conversation on my current project which I thought I might need to contribute to, but it's now resolved, so I've filed those.
I narrowly avoided deleting months of someone's work once - it was in a directory called 'temp', and I assumed that emptying it was a good way to free a few gigabytes of space on a full disk.
My inbox has 138 items, all read. If there's something that needs dealing with later I move it to a folder called "to do", and anything older than a week gets shifted to an archive (which goes back about ten years). I regularly see colleagues with hundreds of unread emails - one (thankfully now departed) used to let them pile up for weeks and then deal with them all at once, so I'd get replies to half a dozen urgent enquiries on a Sunday afternoon six weeks after I had found out the information by ringing her secretary.
If you'd asked that question at the beginning of last week, it would have been 10000+. Now it's 0.
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dave holland (from livejournal.com)2008-08-14 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
99 at home, 506 at work - mostly things I want to keep handy in case I need to deal with them, until they cease to be important, at which point I'll delete or file them.
Inbox Zero is a great idea and I keep trying to get better at doing it.
I included marked spam that's not actually been deleted, and all my smart folders which are views. I suppose I could move those messages elsewhere. I'll get round to it at some point.
Mind you, I do have a directory called old-mail with subdirectories called ox-read-mail and ox-sent-mail, with files dating back to 1995, and my current inbox has mail in from 1997. I'd be tempted to switch to GMail or similar if I were confident about being able to import and export close to 1 GB of mail.
Currently about 2,800 in the 'work' inbox and 300 in the 'personal' inbox. When I migrate to my new workstation (maybe tomorrow) I'll be changing how I organise my mail a bit, since the current scheme is over ten years old and now wildly inappropriate in places!
Answering for my work inbox (84), because the question doesn't make much sense for my home inbox (2726) because it's GMail and it uses tags rather than folders, so I never really move anything out of my inbox.
For me personally, it's helping me spend less time hunting for things I still need to do, and more time just getting them done. I find it far less stressful to only see in my inbox(es) the emails that still require action of some kind.
23 in home in box, 25 in Gmail, 23 in main inbox. Now 5 at work, 13 at home. Gmail remains disaster area in need of love and attention. Maybe next week when I'm working half-time, if Charles naps conveniently.
I was at 1 & 7 earlier in the week. I am trying to decide if I want to actually have an 'Action Required' mailbox for each hat, which will allow me to reach 0 in each inbox, or whether that's wasteful window-dressing.
Hold on - did you mean all, or unread. If all, 3009 in total, across seven inboxes. But then I use filters to redirect them to various folders. So that would be 9649.
Down to 9, from 40+ after last two weeks. (Excluding things that are filed but still need some follow-up, or inherently non-urgent, like LJ notifications.)
Our work has an across-the-board 80Mb limit on mail on the mailserver. Given that I get various bits and pieces attached to mails it does make having a big inbox difficult.
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7 in my gmail inbox
105 in my work inboxThe chiark ones need replying to, the gmail ones are mostly stuff I need to refer to in the immediate future (holiday and train bookings, house buying related), the work stuff is mostly the latter sort (though work-related obv). Actually a few of those were a conversation on my current project which I thought I might need to contribute to, but it's now resolved, so I've filed those.
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earth.li inbox: 0
work inbox: 65 (slowly whittling down from hundreds)
I am aiming for across-the-board Inbox Zero. Getting there, slowly.
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Mind you, I had one boss who'd been using Outlook's 'Deleted Items' folder as an archive for years and got very upset when it was, er, deleted...
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My inbox has 138 items, all read. If there's something that needs dealing with later I move it to a folder called "to do", and anything older than a week gets shifted to an archive (which goes back about ten years). I regularly see colleagues with hundreds of unread emails - one (thankfully now departed) used to let them pile up for weeks and then deal with them all at once, so I'd get replies to half a dozen urgent enquiries on a Sunday afternoon six weeks after I had found out the information by ringing her secretary.
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Inbox Zero is a great idea and I keep trying to get better at doing it.
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Not that it's anything to be proud of, ahem...
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Mind you, I do have a directory called old-mail with subdirectories called ox-read-mail and ox-sent-mail, with files dating back to 1995, and my current inbox has mail in from 1997. I'd be tempted to switch to GMail or similar if I were confident about being able to import and export close to 1 GB of mail.
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~1500 in personal inbox (argh!)
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I'm not sure I get the point of Inbox Zero.
What's the point?
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23 in home in box, 25 in Gmail, 23 in main inbox.Now 5 at work, 13 at home. Gmail remains disaster area in need of love and attention. Maybe next week when I'm working half-time, if Charles naps conveniently.
I was at 1 & 7 earlier in the week. I am trying to decide if I want to actually have an 'Action Required' mailbox for each hat, which will allow me to reach 0 in each inbox, or whether that's wasteful window-dressing.
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.... ok, my answer remains the same.
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I'm going for a lie down.
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