So I've been thinking more about what my ideal email interface would be like if I designed it from scratch. And it's gotten me thinking again about how different peoples' email workflows can be.

I treat my email inboxes as inboxes, getting antsy when there are more than a screenful of messages in there, and sorting messages into folders by customer, project, or sender when I'm done with them.

Other folks treat their inbox alone as their entire email history — I just checked on one customer account that has over 43,000 messages in their inbox folder going back almost a decade.

I'm not saying one method is better, necessarily, but I'm curious how you all approach your own email. Do you keep it sorted and organized? Or let it flow by like a firehose? Treat it like a to-do list? Or something else entirely?