Why is it that I can’t keep my Inbox empty?
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\nI know I’m weird this way, but I like organization. When a message comes into my email inbox, I read it. If it’s short and something I can answer right away, I write a reply.<\/p>\n
When I’m done writing the reply, I either delete the message or I save it in an email folder. For example, email I get from a publisher, I save in my Work folder. Email I get from family members goes into the Family or Personal folder.<\/p>\n
My goal is to keep the inbox relatively empty; only those messages awaiting answers or reminding me to do something are kept in the inbox.<\/p>\n
Well, actually, my goal is to have an empty inbox, but I can’t quite seem to achieve that.<\/p>\n
No matter how hard I press myself, I let a few messages linger. Like, for example, right now there are eight messages in my inbox; several that need replies, one to remind me to do something (a follow-up) and three I could delete if I wanted to.<\/p>\n
My observation is that not everyone strives to keep an empty email inbox. In fact, most people I’ve seen keep all<\/em> their email messages in the inbox. Thousands. They seem to never delete anything.<\/p>\n How those people keep track of which messages still need replies is beyond me. Or maybe it’s that sloppy approach that explains why some people never reply to email. Perhaps they just can’t find the message because the inbox is overwhelmed with hundreds, if not thousands, of email messages.<\/p>\n Without any reason to clean out your email inbox, such as a warning or growing sluggishness from the program, there really isn’t any reason to organize your email. So I’m left with believing that my efforts toward emptying an inbox are my own admitted defect. Yet I’m still puzzled how some people can keep a gazillion messages in their inbox and not have that be a bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is it that I can’t keep my Inbox empty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}