[k__]

I do inbox zero for many years now and almost get an aneurysma when I see how some people use their inbox.

I filter emails like the article suggests, just a bit more detail.

Newsletter, notification, and work are my main tags.

Then I have some specials like tax office, banks, crypto, academia, etc.

Most of it gets archived right when it arrives.

At bussy times, I have like 20 mails in my inbox for 1-2 days, but most of the time my inbox is empty or had under 5 mails.

I also treat these mails as tasks. Everything in my inbox needs to be tended to, and when it's done I send a reply or archive it.

Works like a charm for over a decade now.

[FabHK]

Well, my inbox has tens of thousands of emails. Every January or so, I put last year's messages into an archive for that year. When I look for something, I use the search feature.

Works like a charm for over a decade now. (But I don't get aneurysms when other people handle it differently.)

[k__]

Haha.

I also get one when I see people having open more than 5 browser tabs at a time.

Guess, I'm just not good at handling masses of information visually.

[FabHK]

I have about 23 browser windows open with 3 to 40 tabs each :-)

Come to think of it, it is quite amazing that good software supports so different styles of usage...