Being a long-time fan of Max Dorofeev ( here , here , and this is about him , and here he is in the video ) and his empty Inbox, for some time now I decided to follow this methodology. I want to share purely my results.

1. It’s stressful. Especially when all the notifications from Jira and GitHub are piled up in Inbox. At least half an hour a day is definitely spent freeing yourself from not-very-necessary letters.
2. This, on the other hand, makes you think about whether these letters are really needed, and configure their sources so that either they don’t send them, or they send them, but not so often, or they send them, but not to you.
3. I try to respond to every request with a ticket in Jira. And the request is immediately in _Processed. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say.
4. If a letter fools my eyes, it’s inconvenient to get rid of right away, I still keep it as it is in the inbox. I can wait until Friday. But on Friday evening the weekly report to the customer management, and Inbox –to the cleanup. We start Monday with a clean slate.
5. If with work emails an empty inbox passes, then with your personal email it’s already stressful. The reason for this is that there are a lot of useful letters, which are good to read at leisure, but I have nothing better to do than read all sorts of useful mailings, which I myself volunteer for (how else can you tell me to get WiFi for use in an art gallery what?) and signed.
6. Of course, notifications about receiving new emails are turned off – and without them, there is enough to keep your eyes on, fortunately outside the window the park is green, cyclists are cycling and cars are driving.
7. It would be interesting to somehow forget your email for a day. Has this ever happened to you when you forgot your phone at home, then sat at work all day, stressed out, and who was looking for you there and calling? And you created and created, thought deeply, without being distracted by anything. And then they came, lo and behold, and no one called, and everything was fine. So with email, it’s like that – just do nothing for a day with the flow that flows through you. Or maybe nothing will happen if you don’t react and sort and delete anything there? Maybe everything will be resolved on its own?
8. He won’t dare. You still need to push. Well, clean it right away!🙂

To summarize, technology is wonderful, it makes you more perfect and organized; putting something in a drawer or procrastinating with it will definitely not work. I recommend!