When you start with the app you can leave all of your message history in the inbox (if, like me, you are not in the habit of archiving or filing it) or you can choose one of the archiving options (archive everything, all except unread or all except starred).
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As for effectiveness, I do think limiting the size of my inbox has been helpful in forcing me to procrastinate a little less, organize my digital life and treat each task as a series of discrete steps rather than a vague, daunting undertaking.
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But Inbox Zero, while it certainly forces me to confront and conquer that impulse, merely replaces it with a new compulsion and new anxieties.
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As I gazed into a completely empty inbox for the first time five years, a feeling came over me that took a minute to identify.
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All of the built-in apps worked fine for me, except Mail, which lacks common features like a unified inbox, and an unread-mail folder.
The idea of looking at an email as a task is certainly compelling to someone like me who ends up feeling swamped every time I look at my inbox.
As a result, my inbox is regularly crammed with sale alerts and daily deal emails, messages that let me know, on any given day whether J.
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"The anxiety is just not knowing -- so being able to check the inbox and see what's going on, if anything, is what allows me to relax, " says Daly, 39, a self-employed technology consultant in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Popular recipes include, When Facebook profile picture changes, update Twitter profile picture, When a new book is added to Kindle Top 100 Free eBooks, send me an email, Text me the weather every morning, and Get the Dilbert comic strip delivered to your inbox daily.
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And you need to proactively click around to other tabs to see less-important messages, so the Primary tab feels more streamlined than Priority Inbox's stacked-inboxes approach (the latter feels a tad cluttered, at least to me).
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