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Ask HN: How many items in your inbox?
3 points by cdvonstinkpot on Feb 11, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I'll go first:

Personal: 2

Work: 0

EDIT: This is atypical- I'm usually around 8/3, & no more than 12x in either, except for relatively rare occasions.




I use the accordion method. I let my inbox fill up, and then at some point it gets out of hand and I take drastic measures to bring it back to zero inbox.


Work: 53,589. That represents two years. This is due to a bug in my mail system that prevents me from automatically deleting messages.

I only commit read mail from external senders and ~20 whitelisted people. Other people iMessage me if they need to get to me.

Home: 300. I purge weekly.


Unread emails? 3 (I only keep my unpaid bills as unread).

Emails in inbox all together? All of them.




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