75,825 unread emails? That’s showing those Inbox Zero losers who’s the boss!

Name: Inbox Zero

Age: The idea was first introduced by efficiency expert Merlin Mann in 2006.

Appearance: Read or dead - nothing in between.

Is this to do with emails? Yes. Mann argues that for productivity's sake, emails should be processed promptly - either respond, delete, forward or, if unavoidable, defer.

You forgot ignore. Ignore is not part of the Mann plan.

Maybe not, but it works for me. You mean you read emails and then do nothing about them?

Don't be silly. I don't read them. Ah, so you're one of those people.