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Discussion on: Inbox Zero: How To Keep A Clean Email Inbox (And Mind)

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kayis profile image
K

I'm doing zero inbox for almost ten years now, and people always envy me for having such a clean inbox.

Googlemail has excellent features for this. I have filters for newsletters, freelancer project emails, for every customer one. They get tagged and archived right away.

There is also a setting to change the "Reply" button to "Reply&Archive".

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Florimond Manca

Interesting — so your emails are automatically archived as soon as they get in your inbox? How do you manage read vs. unread emails?

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kayis profile image
K

Gmail displays tags like folders/categories in the sidebar. A mail can be archived but unread and every tag in the sidebar shows how many mails with that tag are unread.

Gmail list all mails, even the archived ones, when I click on a tag in the sidebar. So it's basically like having many sorted inoxes. Only mails from unknown sources land in the "real" inbox.