[jrm4]

100% -- This is the only thing from GTD that's stuck with me very well; Strongly separate your emails and texts from your own "inbox of stuff to do." Filtering one to the other AND NOT RESPONDING should be a discrete, extremely conscious, step in your flow -- only stopping if it fits the 5 minute rule.

[wyclif]

I'm more of a fan of "Inbox Zero for Life": https://web.archive.org/web/20210311074347/https://xph.us/20...

[jrm4]

See, why I prefer mine is; storage is (effectively) free, focused attention is not.

Inbox Zero requires you to seriously think and evaluate every single email, but my way allows me to subconsciously triage.

And I just realized why it's so effective and feels so effortless -- it uses a mental mechanism that we all must use everyday, unfortunately; it's the same filter that lets us ignore advertising (e.g. billboards), which we've all had to practice anyway.