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I’m a fervent believer in Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero, which means that every time that you open your email, you answer and address all of the emails. This clears out your inbox and uses it as a task list. But how do mobile devices fit into this setup? Can your rock Inbox Zero with your iPad and iPhone? Read on to find out more.
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It would be nice to get rid of all that extra clutter in email inboxes, but realistically I think we all have to manage a bit better to keep our mail box clean. In one of my mailboxes I have 1984 messages that are unread and going through all of them and deleting would definitely take hours. Sorting through all the mail, but I dont want to scrap the account because everyone in my contacts list has had this email for years.
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Hi Sean, there’s no easy way of going about it. It took me about 4-6 months to attain Inbox Zero. A lot of messages can easily be archived with Gmail, this is what I do when a message is not that important, but I still want to keep it. It took me hours upon hours, but it’s a much better way of dealing with email.
Whittling your 1984 emails down to 20-50 is pretty easy. It’s these last emails that can take a while to address. These are probably things that you’ve either forgotten or avoided doing. Once they are addressed and archived, you’re on your way.
When I started trying to attain Inbox Zero, I had 500 emails in my inbox. It didn’t take long to get down to 19, but the last few ones took a while longer.