[Titan2189]

Then there's the 3rd option: Neither

Just keep everything in your inbox, find recent things by scrolling down, and anything beyond that is basically inaccessible, since the search is so bad

(I'm in camp archive everything, delete nothing; but see the Neither camp frequently in colleagues)

[xmlninja]

Your kids collect stones and sticks. You collect emails, and probably browser tabs and desktop icons. When you move to new PC, all your desktop files ends up in a directory called New folder on the new pc’s desktop and the journey to fill the new desktop starts over before you have New folder and New folder 2 on the upcoming pc.

[marginalia_nu]

It's beautiful. Thanks to Moore's law, you can always fit all historical data in half your latest disk space. Though I personally tend to call them "Stuff" or "Junk".

But don't do

  Stuff
  Junk

That's a rookie strategy, do

  Stuff /
  Stuff / Stuff
  Stuff / Stuff / Junk / ...

When you need to find something old, just go down the folders until you start finding files from the right decade.

[qwertox]

I moved my old pc into a vm. The vm is the new folder.

[_factor]

If only you could mount a separate home folder that stuck along while you changed roots. One can only dream..

[m463]

You need to solve the migration strategy from stones and sticks to first desktop.

[yesfitz]

I'm an unrepentent "neither".

Trash, Archive, Folders in Folders, Tags, forget it!

Where is it? In the Inbox. If it's unread, I need to do something, if it's read, I don't.

Although if my clients start to slow down, I will export and delete the oldest year from my personal email. So I guess I do technically archive. But only in bulk and begrudgingly.

[jcul]

Yup, another inbox only user here. Unread means it's a to-do.

In Gmail you can set it to group all unread at the top.

Sometimes I'll open an email and mark unread again if I need to come back to it.

[dinkleberg]

I’m in the same camp. Unread vs read is all I need. Also it’s funny when I’m with someone from the “inbox zero” camp and they get stressed seeing my 6-figure inbox count.

[BeetleB]

> If it's unread, I need to do something, if it's read, I don't.

What if you read an email, and need to do something, but can't do it right now? Do you mark it as unread so you can deal with it later?

I did that for years. Thankfully no longer!

[dmje]

Terribly triggered by this

[toast0]

Sorry, but unless I can manage my email with sensible rules, I'm not going to manage it.

I need to be able to have rules that let me move email automatically after it's been read or after it's been in the Inbox for some time. But that's not really possible with most server side rules engines (they only look at mail when it arrives), client side rules engines are dead and I don't use email from a fixed desktop machine anyway, and I'm not going to write an imap based filtering engine (I did it once on company equipment, and it wasn't fun enough to do it again).

So Inbox 40,000 it is.

[isaachinman]

Check out our product. I'm also a "leave everything in inbox" kind of user.

I've got 100k+ threads in my inbox and full text search is single digit ms.

IMAP search itself is unusable. SQLite on the other hand...

https://marcoapp.io

[nickm12]

That's just Archive with fewer steps

[rpgbr]

Chaotic neutral here.

[josefritzishere]

I am that person.