The pursuit of Zero Dark Inbox is a diligent movement to eliminate all unread messages, but what about the rest of us?
What is the number of unread emails right now, at this moment, without changing anything in your inbox even if it's on your gmail account or your other email account such as yahoo, outlook, or AOL, That would be 3,487 in the case of Jen here, 1 in the case of Rebecca. More about what that means in a second, but first, a bit of a backstory called the New Yorker's Sylvia Killingsworth has embarked on an exploration of what she dubs in her headline as zero dark inbox or having absolutely zero unread emails or messages in one inbox.
She writes down that she's got four e-mails in her inbox, but she's aiming for that number to be zero, Like many practitioners of the "inbox zero" system, I treat my inbox like a to-do list, with each e-mail representing a task.
She's adhering to a method which is promoted by Merlin Mann, a lifehacker and proponed of Getting Things Done; essentially it's the digital version of opening all your letters and bills when receive them and dealing with them then as opposed to setting them then as opposed to setting them aside and waiting for the bill collectors to start bagging you to pay up (not that we would do that, of course).
Today i read 25,768 unread messages and it took nearly four hours to read those unread messages and I have not read e-mails in over eight months, but i had to get that done.
Make Sure you read your messages on your email account every day.
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Read More At: What Your Email Inbox Count Says About You - The Atlantic
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