[jasallen]

This may be a very unpopular opinion, but: I feel like modern technology has made the 'cluttered' inbox and 'managing emails' more of an imagined problem than real one. I use gmail, and I have a few rules for tags, and use tags for things that need a further follow-up, but I rely very heavily on its fabulous search and threading abilities.

I think there is a mindset that a neat inbox is a neat life or something like that, but I've usually treated organizing only as a way to make my tasks and tools easier/faster/more accessible. Mail is a problem that, regardless of volume, isn't overly concerning to me.

With gmail in particular there is also the archive vs inbox, but it's largely the same thing.