[beachstartup]

i get probably 1000 messages a day. inbox zero was never a goal of mine, and never will be. i'm not really sure what the point of it would be. seems futile.

i have 3 things that help me keep my mail organized (my startup runs its own postfix+dovecot mail server)

* mail client on dedicated vertical 24" monitor

* procmail (mailing lists, alerts, tickets)

* spamd (spam)

everything else hits my inbox, and if i don't delete a message, it stays there, where it stacks indefinitely.

search bar + at-a-glance view of every important message i've received in the last N days is useful, i'm not really sure where this obsession for having an empty inbox comes from. that would actually hinder my productivity.

lots of ssd + ram = right now there's 29,453 messages (and attachments) in my inbox and it feels great. all of them are marked read.

[yincrash]

yeah, unread 0 seems way better than having an empty inbox. what's the overall benefit with having 0 inbox over unread 0?