Keeping both my Inboxes empty for the first time in a long while......
 

I have 2 email addys I use - one for personal and one for business.

With the old Windows Mail they all would come into one inbox. Now that I have Thunderbird, there are 2 inboxes.

At any rate.....for the past week, I have been working hard on keeping my emails all processed so that my inboxes stay empty. Sure - there are times when a message or two stay there until I process it accordingly the following day or so, depending on the situation. But boy is it NICE to have all of those little SOB's gone...hopefully will be able to keep up with it.

I have a few folders set up to drag them into for future reference if necessary but also am getting good at deleting many.

I don't get a ton of email but it adds up if you don't jump on it!

I have 3 personal email accounts and business email.
I have the personal accounts that I set up long ago with my home cable provider just forward all the email to my business account. I use Outlook as my email client. Everything in outlook is synchronized to my cell phone and if I read or delete an email, the computer shows that. All the contacts and folders sync up.
I have many folders set up to organize the email. One for every subject. Like one for Amazon orders, one for Pelican orders, one for the projects I do on either car as so on.
I can send an email from any of the accounts, but they all are in one place for me.

Sounds like you are doing great!

My brother just lets stuff sit in his inbox not even read. At least I read them and sort em into other boxes. But still think I probably keep too much.

I have a home e-mail and a work e-mail. It would be impossible to combine them without violating multiple information security policies at work.

That said, my inbox at work is my to-do list. Most e-mails are read and promptly filed for retention. (I have over 500 folders and subfolders on various topics.) FYI e-mails are read and deleted. E-mails that require action are read, and moved when the action is complete. I generally have between 10-30 e-mails in my inbox. Sometimes less around holidays. Often more on Monday morning.

My home e-mails is also a to-do list, but I usually have very few non-spam e-mails that I care about. I also keep web orders as unread until they are completely fulfilled.

If you retain sent items it is also really good to refile sent items by year. Have had users mail cleints crash because they had too many items in the sent items folder.

It is also good to keep all those retention folders you are filing stuff in Outside of your Inbox. Most users fill their inbox with folders to file things in. And have had mail clients crash again because of too many total items in their inbox.

I clean out my sent items folder monthly. I only keep a rolling month. Things I want to retain longterm I CC myself on for filing.