Inbox Zero, Outlook, Thunderbird, GMail
I’ve become a big fan of Inbox Zero recently, yet I was unable to really do it because I was an Outlook user. Yes, laugh at me if it makes you happy :) Outlook sucks bigtime if you want to keep your inbox clean, and what Inbox Zero doesn’t promote is OUTBOX Zero! – which is what I do as well. In Outlook, for each mail I had to search for all mails having the same topic in order to find the sent mails as well, then delete all of them. Now, I’m a Thunderbird user, and I can view mails as threads, how cool is that? A feature I’ve always missed in Outlook, although it’s not entirely impossible to do this with Outlook, it sucks really bad. So with Thunderbird, I can delete entire threads by just one click and *bing* the inbox looks better. This requires to make reduced use of a “sent” folder of course. Now here comes Google and its GMail philosophy: “do not delete, just remove the label. The ‘all messages’ folder will serve as an archive for your messages” (this is not a real quote, it’s only meant to represent the idea). What the heck? This is absolutely contrary to the Inbox Zero principle. Thus, I’ve decided to ignore Google’s recommendation and make Thunderbird move deleted mails to the trash folder, from where I can exterminate them. Kind of disobedient, but who cares :-)