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Inbox 482

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I'm an Inbox Zero kind of girl. Inbox Zero doesn't hold up when you go on vacation. I just got back from Kaua'i [1]. I didn't check my email or do anything at all work-related while I was gone, which is quite impressive for me. (The posts that came up here were written and queued up before I left.)

I use rules extensively to manage my mail. My goal is that only items that are directly addressed to me end up in my inbox. When I got back into the office on Wednesday, my inbox had 482 unread items in it. That, of course, wasn't all of the unread email that I had. My total across all of my folders was north of 2200.

I spent Wednesday and Thursday digging out from that email. I'm not done yet, and it'll probably be towards the middle of next week until I get back to Inbox Zero. Right now, my inbox has 37 items in it which need my attention. To get to that point, I used all of my usual tricks for finding my way out from all that email.

[1] If you're interested, I posted a bunch of pictures to my Twitter feed. This picture is the first one I took in Kaua'i, and that links you to the other ones that I posted too.