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I only ask, as I'm a inbox zero kind of person, and it appears that one of my GPs has a 4 figure number and I pretty much had an aneurism. He thinks I'm weird, I think he's sloppy to the point of carelessness. The other GPs are the same as the first; with various 3 figures of unread emails...just sitting there! aarrgghhh.
Am I doing it wrong?
None. I use my inbox as pretty much my to-do list
At work about 200. But mainly all where I’m cc’d.
3. They are things I need to respond to.
154 I use my inbox pretty-much as my to-do list
None. Multiple mailboxes, personal and work. All up to date.
The filing system under those mailboxes however leaves a lot to be desired...
None, but I'm not very important....
Edit: I have 239 unread in my deleted items!
One and it's just Cambridge Wireless News.
Get very little work email, only a few each day!
Mainly communicate via chat in Teams / Skype.
Work currently 28 did have 350 this morning.
Damn week off😛
Gmail loads as in 1000s.
None
Doesn't mean I've replied to them though! My usual policy is if it's important they'll chase me again! 🙂
4786 right now.
Hmm. I am quite shameful in this area.
My 3 inboxes are
work: 1479 unread
BT mail: 2550 unread
GMail: 11926 unread
total : 15995
please don't judge me, I'll catch up with them one day 😥
3 but I never file anything. That's what search is for. So have 1000s and 1000s of emails going back about 5 years. I suppose I could go and cull the really old ones, but I'm way too lazy for that 🙂
Main work inbox 1,644
Sub inboxes approx 300+
Gmail #1 - 3,357
Gmail #2 - 2,334
I've got a data transfer account with 31k+ unread emails, but that's a bit different
Less than ten usualy.
As above anything in my inbox requires action.
Everything else either gets immediately binned or moved to a relevant sub folder for future reference.
7859. I've no idea why, you've prompted me to do some housekeeping!
Currently 32K unread on my Hotmail, was iro 100K after years of neglect but I clicked 'mark all as read' by accident. Had to delete a load recently to stay under 10Gb space limit.
Yahoo stops counting at 9,999, and I hit that years ago.
Anything that doesn't interest me doesn't get opened. Anything that's needs action gets added to the to do list.
Edit: I can't even read the bloody question properly 🙄
My gmail has 100,540 unread 😎
Work, a bit lower
total : 15995
Holy crap! That's insane
24,378 according to my phone
It needs a bit of a tidy.
17,318 unread.
Inbox is not a todo list or prioritisation tool for me.
All I can say is that anything I want to deal with gets prioritised using a mix of Notion, Jira & Slack.
My main email is very tidy, rarely gets above 10 unread emails.
The Gmail address I set up a year ago for job searches and applications has over 20,000. When you have sites like Total Jobs, Reed etc generating emails 2-3 times a day plus every company you apply to sending their newsletters etc it quickly piles up! There's over 100 from just this morning. I'll be so glad when I find permanent work and can close that one down.
I also have an email address to use for signing up to sites for free stuff etc and that regularly hits it's storage limit and needs a clear out every month or so.
14 in my personal Gmail, all read but marked unread as I need to keep or do something with them.
Currently in the middle of 2 weeks leave from work, so I dread to think, having made the mistake of checking the team WhatsApp the other day- not even sure what role I'm going back to as resources have reallocated, apparently.
personal - 36,673
work -815 , I thought it was about 50 , I should really do something about them
Are we talking about unread or in total? My figures were purely unread, the total number in the inboxes are 10x that
Work: 3300
Play: 5200:
I don't worry about unread emails. I get a lot of automatic ones from servers each day. If it really matters people send multiple reminders, not to mention calendar blocks for activities.
I did previously have failure emails coming in from one of our systems and it went a bit mental over Christmas, when I came back from my holidays I had 25,000 emails .It took 4 hours to open and another 4 to delete them
One. And that's as a reminder I've to write something this week.
Stuff is read, deleted if unimportant or archived if worth keeping. GMail makes everything so easy to find that I don't bother much with folders these days.
600+ at work. And that's with me being diligent at clearing stuff. None of it is from me having had a recent holiday - it's just people at me. Gmail, something silly like 20,000+ but nobody cares about that.
Work: 15089
Hotmail: 17809
Work - 4 - all things I need to do
GMail - 0 - just tidied it up
Hotmail - 1224 - it would be more but I have GMail filter important stuff out so it actually gets read
The wife has around 20k unread across 3 accounts. Drives me mad. Don't even get me started in her 99+ open tabs on Chrome on her mobile.
None currently but old job was 4500+, I see that as a target to be beaten
45. Will be cleared by end of day.
If I am cc'd in, it is deleted.
I do not subscribe to any 'updates' or marketing emails. Ruthlessly.
Holy crap! That’s insane
Just slightly doolally in comparison, it seems 😀
Indeed, I spoke too soon, eh?
Wow, some of the numbers on here...I mean I can see folk can ignore the auto-generated stuff, (but then; set a rule up you monster) but really apart from that, how do you sleep at night?
I saw my managers email inbox on a teams call today, it had 67000 emails in it. I have 50.
30 unread as some of them are just information spam.
Sleep at night? It's just email. If it's that important, people phone or stroll over to my desk or catch me when I am out on site.
Zero unread.
I have become ruthless. Having gigabytes of nonsense being stored on a server requiring power is rediculous so I am steady block deleting old crap aswell.
Zero unread here too, unsubscribe from most shite and am fairly unimportant in the scheme of things at work 🙂
Rocketmail account (ask your grandparents) which is my main personal account, 0. In fact there's no read e-mails in there, it's just stuff I need to do.
Main work one, 15, these are just adverts and assorted crap I can't be bothered to delete.
Second work one, it's a legacy e-mail address I hardly ever read, 488 unread, used to bother me, couldn't give a monkey's now. I've only got it because I've got accounts for stuff tied to it.
None at all, don't have a use for email except when ordering stuff online,
I think we nee da major shift away from email in the workplace, it is an antiquated tool which absorbs far too much time. Mostly it is just overused by people who do not trust their colleagues so want an over the top audit trail
Hopefully Teams and the like take a a front seat and push email into history.