How Organized is your work inbox?

[Anonymous]

The 1000+ emails and spam is driving me nuts. I have been cleaning it out today.

[Anonymous]

My inbox is pretty organized but it's because I have a million folders into which I throw things everyday.

[Anonymous]

I lose things in folders. So almost everything is in my Inbox.

On busier projects I send anything where I'm cc'ed to a folder to cut down on clutter.

[Anonymous]

Currently I have 56 emails in my inbox (all read). If they are in the inbox it means it's an open item - either an action for me to take, or waiting on input or response from someone else before I can consider it taken care of. At that point I move them in the appropriate folders. Any time I have more than say 30 emails in my inbox, I start feeling a little stressed - so today it has clearly been a busy day, but not crazy. Coming back from vacation to 600+ emails is not fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Currently I have 56 emails in my inbox (all read). If they are in the inbox it means it's an open item - either an action for me to take, or waiting on input or response from someone else before I can consider it taken care of. At that point I move them in the appropriate folders. Any time I have more than say 30 emails in my inbox, I start feeling a little stressed - so today it has clearly been a busy day, but not crazy. Coming back from vacation to 600+ emails is not fun!

Same. Inbox is to-do list exclusively. I use archives and folders extensively and save ever email for future reference.

[Anonymous]

My inbox is a to-do. Currently it has 6 emails in it with the oldest being from last Tuesday. I also use archives and folders to keep things clean and easily accessible.

[Anonymous]

My currently has 1294 emails in it. Things that are completely unimportant are deleted immediately; every month or so I go back and delete the rest of the unimportant stuff. What remains are things that are either really important or things that might be important/used for reference at some point.

I don't like folders.

[Anonymous]

I don't like folders. I have too many email threads that span multiple projects or don't fit nearly into a little box, and in the end it's too hard to find things because any one email could fit logically in several different folders. The search function OTOH works pretty well, so I keep everything together and use searches or sorting to find stuff.

So, I delete any junk or unimportant stuff immediately. The rest stays in my inbox for a while, then I dump the old stuff into a searchable archive folder. I start a new archive folder every 6 months.

[Anonymous]

95 emails and I hope to get to 0 before vacation in a few days. Inbox is only those items I need to resolve. The rest filed in folders by client or project. Easy to find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like folders. I have too many email threads that span multiple projects or don't fit nearly into a little box, and in the end it's too hard to find things because any one email could fit logically in several different folders. The search function OTOH works pretty well, so I keep everything together and use searches or sorting to find stuff.

So, I delete any junk or unimportant stuff immediately. The rest stays in my inbox for a while, then I dump the old stuff into a searchable archive folder. I start a new archive folder every 6 months.

Are all folders created considered "archive folders"? Sorry, not so savvy Outlook user.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Currently I have 56 emails in my inbox (all read). If they are in the inbox it means it's an open item - either an action for me to take, or waiting on input or response from someone else before I can consider it taken care of. At that point I move them in the appropriate folders. Any time I have more than say 30 emails in my inbox, I start feeling a little stressed - so today it has clearly been a busy day, but not crazy. Coming back from vacation to 600+ emails is not fun!

Same. Inbox is to-do list exclusively. I use archives and folders extensively and save ever email for future reference.

Exact same. I find the Outlook search function very buggy and don't trust it, so I would never keep everything in my inbox and just search for what I want ... like my spouse does.

[Anonymous]

I have about 1600 emails in my inbox and about half are not read. I make rules for handling things and make a point of blocking/unsubscribing from feeds that I don't need.
There are probably 400 of those emails that require some form of response from me. As Charles Barkley said, I'm not a role model.

[Anonymous]

I currently have 2300 items in my inbox and folders. However, I only have 2 unread emails. My folders (which have email rules attached to them) keep me organized.

[Anonymous]

Very - I create folders for almost every case, plus general folders like Admin, Benefits, Miscellaneous, etc.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. His makes me feel like I’m not using this correctly. My inbox goes back to 2015. I tried folders and it just didn’t work out. But the search function is buggy. Unlike gmail search function. Maybe I should set up rules and try folders again. I have no unread emails though.