… the inbox is invaluable for me, because it acts as a domain-specific todo list: it draws a hard line between the things that have been handled (archived), and the things that are not (inbox). Crossing this line requires an explicit act.
Fernando Borretti in Inboxes are Underrated
Another interesting observation:
… most people never archive their emails, they just keep everything in the inbox.
I’ve definitely seen this and it freaks me out a little, but I think the idea is that emails are still marked as “read” vs “unread” and they use that as a proxy on if it’s “dealt with” or not. To each their own!
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