Comments on: 3 simple tips for getting to inbox zero with Apple Mail

By: Patrick Rafter

Patrick Rafter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:13:51 +0000

Dave– Thanks for this helpful article on Apple Mail. While I’m a longtime Mac advocate— I’ve found Mail one of the more disappointing Apple-built applications (at least the Lion upgrade improved things). Still think it’s weird that when emailing on a PC with MS-Outlook — the display of fonts on a recipient’s computer is pretty much WYSIWYG… that ain’t the case with Apple Mail. Genius Bar personnel have no work around that.

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:21:25 +0000

Thats an interesting way of doing it. I don’t delete things but I’ll move them to an archive folder and then sort the archives by years. I think I have every email I’m sent since 1994

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:07:38 +0000

My solution to this is a special folder, that I call “90 day save”. Instead of letting junk pile up in my inbox that I think that I might need, I shove it in the 90 day folder.

Then, every month or so, I delete anything in the folder that is >90 days old.

It’s great for things that you think that you might need short term, but don’t want to keep forever.

Jeff

By: tghosh

tghosh — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:29:40 +0000

Ive used a site called OtherInbox to automatically route and organize 90% of my mail in my personal email accounts. Getting to inbox zero on my professional account is a whole other story