Comments on: OT: How Many Emails Do You Have in Your Inbox Right Now?

By: Jack R

Jack R — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:41:24 +0000

As of today, 11,450! ;0 Been keeping emails since 2004, although I do run my own eBay business which adds a lot to the total. But there you go!

By: ZGSMaster

ZGSMaster — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:16:48 +0000

4061. I use yahoo.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:17:38 +0000

Well over 5,000…

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:09:03 +0000

23 in my work email 6 in my personnel. I work as a computer tech / help desk for a medium sized company and receive between hundreds of emails a day. only about 20 or 30 actually hit my inbox, the rest are sorted by rules that are defined and put in place by me to keep organized.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:11:20 +0000

I’m actually super diligent about deleting emails or moving them to their designated folder. I start to feel really overwhelmed when my inbox has a bunch of irrelevent stuff in it that doesn’t require immediate attention, but that’s just me!

By: Foobarista

Foobarista — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:49:25 +0000

In my work email: thousands. I don’t bother deleting them or moving them around. Finding old emails is what search utilities are for.

For “action required” emails, I keep them marked unread until I’m done with them.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:33:51 +0000

I keep my personal inbox to less than 10.

Work is even better where I manage the inbox to zero every day (Well, almost every day). I get well over a hundred work emails per day with schedules, agendas, etc. I have created rules in Outlook to file these in their appropriate folders, delete as needed, etc. That along shaved 25% of my email.

I also drag and drop emails to my task list to do the follow ups. This is a really handy feature for reminding me that Joe was supposed to call Tom. Or that I should print this massive file early in the morning before I lock up the printer.

Getting Things Done is big at my company and I really like the OCD approach anyway.

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:55:51 +0000

2110.

By: Single Ma

Single Ma — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:02:50 +0000

Personal: 15 unread, 20something total. I purge as I go.

Work: *faint* HUNDREDS! I’ve been back from vacation for 2 days and still going through them. I should delete and act like I never received them. If it’s urgent, they’ll email again. LOL

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:19:38 +0000

Another tip: if you forget where you put an email, you have too many folders. If you organize them by the type of email instead of the subject it should be pretty clear where you want to look.