My kids use VIP status for emails from school, professors etc. they limit phone banners to VIP. Then check e mail once every few days. This works well. I’m a VIP in their phone. Lol
I’m always yapping at my kids to clean out their emails. I know they never delete them, heck they barely read them. I too have to send them a text to go read an email. Drives me nuts! And trouble shoot anything, forget about it. They’ll just ignore it, no cause for alarm.
@SeeksKnowledge I’m curious why you want them to delete them? My mom has a habit of deleting her email after she reads it and then she can never go back and search for something if she forgets what someone said or what time they were going to meet etc.
I don’t really delete my old emails-that way I can pull up old info by searching
It’s much easier to search if you delete the garbage, and archive the important things out of your inbox.
@surfcity I guess you can delete them and leave in trash, then you can access…but I’m talking about moving them out of your inbox. Either make a folder to keep them or move to delete! I’m super organized and can’t stand an inbox with. thousands of items! And maybe I’m old schhool but I thought you’d run out of room in your inbox and then not be able to get new messages.
I know peoples voicemail works that way, " the mailbox is full and unable to accept a message.
They need to organize their lives and as far as I’m concerned it starts with their inboxes haha
I have emails from 2015 through today in my in box. They are all opened and read however. I used to archive each year’s on my hard drive, but leaving them in the in box is easier because they are still on the cloud. I guess I could make a folder on the cloud too?
I’m asking because I am never confident that I am being as efficient as I could be. My co worker has a thousand different email folders for every project or program and she puts all her email into the appropriate folder. That is too much work for me, plus I’d wonder if I stored the email in the “Mr Jones” folder or in the “Project XYZ” folder. So I leave it all in one place.
So far I have not come close to running out of room for my emails 
I guess I don’t see the difference - they are still sitting in a folder or the inbox, which I consider a folder.
I do have a separate email address for newsletters and online shopping etc so those are segregated and I don’t have to wade through them unless I am looking for a coupon from a store or something.
Maybe I should start a thread on how to organize email . . .I am clearly not doing it the way everyone else is!
Ok but our stuff for work is different than my kids. Once they are in college they don’t need to be hanging on to high school emails. Once your a senior in college you don’t need all the freshman year crap. Etc
My office has a research department. There is a sign on the door that says “Before you ask us a question, have you tried Google?”