The “Everything BUT My Stupid Inbox” Hack Maybe someday some email program will let me set a “Home” mailbox that’s not my goddamned Inbox. Assuming I want to see unprocessed messages every time I do anything with email is like making me trudge out to my home mailbox every time I take a leak, turn on the oven, fold a towel, or do any of the 500,000 other things I can easily accomplish without asking for new information. Ludicrous. Seriously. It’s hard to overstate how little I want to see my Inbox throughout the day. And frankly I’m gobsmacked at the lengths I have to go to in order to instill such a simple and categorically wholesome pattern. Get with it, guys.
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The “Everything BUT My Stupid Inbox” Hack

Maybe someday some email program will let me set a “Home” mailbox that’s not my goddamned Inbox.

Assuming I want to see unprocessed messages every time I do anything with email is like making me trudge out to my home mailbox every time I take a leak, turn on the oven, fold a towel, or do any of the 500,000 other things I can easily accomplish without asking for new information.

Ludicrous.

Seriously. It’s hard to overstate how little I want to see my Inbox throughout the day. And frankly I’m gobsmacked at the lengths I have to go to in order to instill such a simple and categorically wholesome pattern.

Get with it, guys.

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  1. zaiga reblogged this from soupsoup
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  3. ianbroyles said: I use filters in Gmail to automatically apply labels to incoming emails. These labels show up as boxes in my mail app and I setup the mail app to push mail to my important labels so they are always up to date. More: tinyurl.com/formerl…
  4. grantimatter said: Actually, Yahoo has recently ticked me off by sort of doing this - instead of going straight to the inbox it goes to a “Home” that consists of all the folders down the left, a couple “new from contacts” in the middle and… news stories on the rest.
  5. mikechecksmail reblogged this from merlin and added:
    suggestion about inboxes and default views:...Every mail client ever misses Merlin’s...
  6. nedhepburn said: tell Sandwich hello for me.
  7. penllawen said: Merlin, you have one of the most aggressively customised iPhone homescreen layouts I’ve seen. I’d love to see a post where you lay out how you use these apps and what some of them are (+Cal, for example?)
  8. soupsoup reblogged this from merlin and added:
    Simplification by complication.