I have 0 unread. I stay on top of unsubscribing from unwanted emails, unlike my husband who complains about how many emails he receives.
I put the spam emails in my junk folder. Eventually that cuts down on them until the next time we stay at a hotel and use their Wi-Fi.
My problem is with my read emails in my inbox. My husband is very good with filing them in appropriate folders, but I always have some emails that don’t fit neatly into categories, or I’m afraid I’ll lose them when I need to find them. (I’ve already accidentally filed them in the wrong folder.)
I check my email multiple times a day, and take care of them immediately. If I let them go, even for a day, it starts to get overwhelming and I’m more likely to let them build up. So I have to discipline myself.
My personal email, I have 3 unread. Things I maybe sent myself and are there for just a few days until something is resolved and I can delete them. I am not counting spam because I just delete that whole folder about once a week without looking at it.
At work I currently have 27 unread - largely because I was off Friday. It bothers me that I have about 1000 emails in my inbox though. I periodically try and take a little time to clean out and it’s time again. But to my defense I do at least flag the important ones for action. Plenty of other emails archived in folders.
0 unread at work, thousands read and in the inbox. I delete irrelevant ones, and use the (occasionally unreliable ?) Outlook archive function to keep ahead of the space cap my client has on mailbox size. Being an email packrat is necessary to be a good project manager, IMHO. But I read them all, and decide whether to delete.
All are also read at home. 8800 in the inbox at this moment.
I live by email. I don’t have facebook, twitter, instagram, or twitter.
I receive about 50 email for my work. If anything unread, I will be working on it. Between email, bug tracking too, and my small todo list to track long term (>2 weeks) task, I am on top of my day to day work.
Then I have my online business email. This is the most important email account and I have it on my phone, too. I have about 13.5K archived sale thread for the past 12 years. Each thread can be one, or a few dozen email.
Then I have first@last email, mostly just for communication between my family.
Then I have first@gmail email, this is for personal use beyond family. BTW, first@yahoo I left it dead.
Then I have my real estate email, very seldom I have anything here.
The about email I don’t have any unread. And I don’t have anything even in inbox for my personal/business email.
Then I have this catch all email for my last name. There are more than 10 million people with this last name. I clean up the inbox for this email may once every couple of years. I just checked it is more 27000 unread. Not a time to clean up yet.
I usually have 5 or fewer unread emails in my main personal inbox, and the only reason why they’re there is that I use emails as reminders. If I have a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday (which I do), there will be an unread email in my inbox (from Google calendar) to serve as a reminder. I realize that there are better reminder systems, but this works for me.
At work, I use different reminder systems, and I try to read every email within a few hours.
I have an extra email account that I give out to the nice people in stores who ask for it. I also use it for my social media accounts. This diverts most of my junk mail to a place that I visit maybe once a month. That account has at least 10,000 unread emails in it.
Zero because I’m CDO (OCD but in alphabetical order as it should be). I have folders for every type of e-mail I might wish to save, so I read and either delete, reply, or file as the messages hit my box. I don’t let them pile up but, now that I’m not working, I only have one personal e-mail account so it’s not too hard to handle.
Zero, with a bunch of stuff archived and others forwarded to a backup account for … well, I’m not sure exactly what for, but they’re over there in case I ever need them. Most stuff just gets deleted after reading.
I usually bulk delete yahoo, when I feel like at after reviewing sender and subject lines. I’ll only open if either are interesting.
It’s also the email account for cc and Quora type notifications and from other social media that I have but don’t use. Fantasy football etc.
So it’s not monitored like gmail in real time.
Work email. it can range from a few read and not cached to several hundred if I take a few days off and unplug. Currently. but a few EAs have access and can respond to housekeeping stuff for me.
Only today’s new emails. On a Sunday it’s probebly only 20 or so. Normal work day. 200 or 300 of so. But this includes journals, newspaper and industry news that push content. Some is useful and read. Some delete and a system delete.
Ten Years or more of saved messages in “deleted or sent” personal folders by sub category by year. After deleting all that are unimportant -the focus on saved email are on sent files to clients, compliance or legal.
On one of my podcasts they were talking about email one day. If you have thousands of emails in your inbox unattended or not filed to folders…how detrimental would it be to just get a fresh start and do a clean sweep - delete them all?
I search my emails all the time. It’s easy with a key word search. I watch my boss archiving all her emails in appropriate folders and then be unable to find anything (this could be user error on her part.). Why bother if a search will find whatever you’re looking for?
Folks here seem to be posting how many emails are still in their inbox…betting those of you you with tens of thousands of saved emails have actually read them.
I unsubscribe on a regular basis to stuff and delete in batches. Facebook, any newsletters etc. that takes care of a lot.
My email is an active calendar and file cabinet in many respects. I don’t delete til I’m ready to shred. My husband doesn’t understand this method at all! His is zero.
Who I sent what, what I ordered, when, what, who, why and even how. It can be months or a year later. Hit the search tab and it’s there (thank goodness!). Saved me multiple times.
Plenty of other emails archived in folders.