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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness, by Gretchen Rubin

I'm fascinated by "in-box zero" and am going to try to get there myself! I wouldn't want to sustain it every day, but I want to experiment by achieving it, even for just five minutes. I have friends who swear by it.

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15 May 19 · Flag

Christina Linz

Does it really matter if you have an inbox of 0? Rather than filing or deleting emails that I don't have time to deal with, I just let them build up. Emails are keyword searchable, so I'd rather just …

19 Aug 19 · Flag

Gretchen Rubin

I've been working on unsubscribing too. I think I may try to get my inbox down to 75 or so. It does act as a useful working to-do list and reminder list, I've realized...but there's a lot of stuff I s…

19 Aug 19 · Flag

Carolin

For a while, I would delete emails that needed an action from me, and instead make a note in my to-do app, but that's kind of defeating the point, and honestly adds time (because I'm transcribing stuf…

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