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The inbox rule that finally stuck
One filter that changed email for good, after a decade of systems that did not.
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Every inbox methodology I tried failed the same way: it required daily maintenance, and the day I skipped it was the day it collapsed.
The rule
Anything addressed to a list, an alias, or more than four people skips the inbox entirely. Not archived — filed, unread, into one folder I read once a day.
It removed about seventy percent of arriving mail and needed no discipline at all, which is the only reason it survived.