I saw a colleague’s work email inbox the other day, and was astonished to find that he had 2,000+ unread emails. For me that’s almost an automatic heart-attack. But everyone has different strategies. For me, I like to keep as few emails in my inbox as possible – this extends to my private inbox, my blog roll (Feedly), my work RSS feeds, my iTunes podcast list. If I have nothing unread/un-listened then I feel on top of things.

Of course it’s probably a bad strategy. I probably spend too much time managing the inbox rather than achieving the big things. But somehow it makes me feel in control, and I prefer to only keep things in front of me that can’t immediately be batted into touch. My inbox is my to-do list.