Yesterday I decided to adopt the ZIS (Zero Inbox Strategy). I learned about it from this post by Brad Feld.
Like many of us, my inbox was becoming unmanageable. I'm on a startup and we have very little "noise" email, still, by the end of a week I would have accumulated between 50 and 100 extra emails on my inbox. After a couple of months I had easily 600 to 800 items on my inbox. And just to be clear, those were items *requiring some action*!!!
The difference between me and Brad Feld (besides startup experience, wealth, name, hairline, working style, ...) is that I have lots of items on my inbox that require hours of coding before I can cross them out. But it won't stop me from trying.
Since yesterday I had only 1 item on my inbox. Everything coming my way I try to reply immediatelly, read it immediatelly, or add to my to-do list and remove from the Inbox.
I don't know if this is going to work on the long run, but my email strategy was getting worse and worse and I had to do something.
I'm the Co-founder & CTO of 
