I admit it, I have a dysfunctional relationship with email

I wouldn't quite say that this was a New Year's resolution of mine, but at some point over the last week, a small part of me started to feel that reducing the size of inbox was probably a good idea. I mean I've done more than enough lecturing about how bad it is to have a super-full inbox, and I'm the one of the worst offenders I know with over 6000 messages in my inbox.

So, today, after reading Fresh Start: The Email DMZ, I did as instructed:

1. Open your email program and create a new folder called “DMZ“
2. Go to your email inbox and Select All
* You might alternatively choose all email older than n days
3. Drag those emails from your inbox into the DMZ folder
4. Go, and sin no more.

it's only been a few minutes, so all I can say is that as of now, the experience is startling - I click over to my mail program and my Inbox is empty! I'm embarrassed to admit that I actually did a double take and wondered if I was looking at the wrong folder.

If this actually works, I'll let you know how it goes.