I agree with this, email (professional at least) inbox should be treated as its own todo list.
anything in the inbox is something to action, anything you don't need to action personally, archive / tag or move to a folder and be done with it.
If it's something to action then at least gmail has a snooze button and I've found that to be super helpful.
My rule of thumb is that I should not have more than 30 items in my inbox. If there's more then clearing the inbox takes priority over anything else (bar key meetings).
anything in the inbox is something to action, anything you don't need to action personally, archive / tag or move to a folder and be done with it.
If it's something to action then at least gmail has a snooze button and I've found that to be super helpful.
My rule of thumb is that I should not have more than 30 items in my inbox. If there's more then clearing the inbox takes priority over anything else (bar key meetings).