You have have had someone say more than once in the last week, “Did you get the email I sent to you? I haven’t heard back from you.” You feel anxious or overwhelmed whenever you think about email. Does this describe you? If so, here are seven steps to declaring email bankruptcy: Admit the truth. You are too far behind to catch up.

Email bankruptcy is deleting or ignoring all emails older than a certain date, due to an overwhelming volume of messages. The term is usually attributed to author Lawrence Lessig in 2004, [1] though it can also be attributed to Sherry Turkle in 2002. [2]

Too many emails in your inbox leads to lost emails and a lot of jumbled confusion. I'll show you how to declare email bankruptcy and get a fresh start in your inbox!

2023年12月26日 · Declaring email bankruptcy requires a measure of self-reflection, rethinking a new email organization method, and acknowledging that it's best to start over with a clean slate.

2015年2月11日 · Maybe it’s time to declare email bankruptcy. Email bankruptcy — not unlike financial bankruptcy in principle — is an act that involves wiping out all of your existing email ‘debt,’ i.e. the...

2023年12月22日 · When you need to clear out your inbox, but you don't want to go overboard. The idea of declaring “email bankruptcy”—just deleting all the emails in your inbox past a certain date—is so...

2023年3月26日 · Let’s be clear: Email bankruptcy is not even close to the seriousness of actual bankruptcy. For most people, deleting all emails and starting over is not the end of the world. Sure, Aunt Edith might bring up the fact that she emailed you a cat video last summer, and you never responded.

2014年12月18日 · Email bankruptcy—not unlike financial bankruptcy in principle—is an act that involves wiping out all of your existing email ‘debt,’ i.e. the unread emails in your inbox, and starting over with a completely clean slate.

2014年1月20日 · Don't be misled by tech industry figures deleting all their unread emails: at best it's a temporary solution to "email overload". The real answer is to change the way you process email.

2023年12月12日 · Scanning through a massive list of emails meant making countless micro-decisions: Is the sender significant? Does the subject hint at something urgent? Is there a time-sensitive issue within? So,...