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Are you one of those people that keep your inbox very tidy? Emails moved to appropriate folders, only outstanding emails remaining left in the inbox?

Or do you rely solely on the "search" function to organize? Just looking through mine, and I have 34,591 emails in the inbox, over 7 years. I'd like to tidy them up. I think it's too late though!
 
I use Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero methodology. Emails come in and get acted on and then deleted.

Those actions created are transferred to OmniFocus and any attachments or the original email are stored if needed and added to the OmniFocus action.

At work they are processed and actions sent to either Evernote or stored in my DropBox and then sent to OmniFocus if needs be.

GTD is the way baby!
 
I've always kept on top of my inbox, but a couple of weeks ago I set up a few filters and folders as I got tired of newsletters clogging up my inbox daily.
 
I don't bother organizing them into folders but I can say that there isn't a single one of my 8000 emails in my various inboxes that is unread.
 
My main email account has 1400 unread emails. They are so far back I can't be bothered to go and delete them. They are all not worth reading going by the subjects.
 
I have the usual Inbox, Sent items, Drafts, and an extra folder where I keep things I want permanently, such as receipts etc. The only folder that ever has anything in it is the saved items folder mentioned above, I hate having messages left in any of the other places, it just looks untidy, but then again I am a bit OCD with most things.
 
I try to move emails to appropriate folders after they've been read, however I swear that Windows, My ISP's and Hosting's spam filters are doing their best to beat me - they keep randomly marking legitimate stuff as spam, and letting obvious spam through unimpeded.
 
Gmail - Set up with 10 Different Folders, along the lines of:

  • Online Orders
  • Friends
  • Work
Etc..

I did this after my inbox got to about 5,000 emails, and it took me best part of a day to sort out..

I move emails into said folders as soon as i receive them now
 
I organised my gmail inbox once and set up rules for auto sorting but now, 6 months later, I wish I hadn't. However, I don't really use email for anything other than mailing lists and whatnot so it doesn't need to be organised. My work email is very well organised as I need it to be.
 
Christ no, the most I do is mark them all as read every couple months, hotmail has like 34235456353 unread now though.
 
My personal email inbox is a mess, I have 220 unread emails and 75 unread spam emails, I just can't be arsed to delete or do anything with spam emails so I just leave them as they are.

Work emails, I like it tidy so I move all done emails to specific folders, I have about 20-30 folders, specific departments or people.
 
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