My email flow has dramatically improved ever since I created a macro and folder hook in mutt so that by default I only see new, unopened, or flagged messages. I don't move opened emails from my INBOX elsewhere so no INBOX 0.

Now I only see emails I need to take some sort of action on. I can filter messages other ways, then press '.o' whenever I want to resume this view.

If you are a mutt user, use these two options to your .muttrc:

macro index .o "l(~N|~O|~F)\n"
folder-hook . push '.o'

@kyle I think the litmus test if a email flow has improved is to check with the people you *interact* with if they notice any difference. Otherwise it might have improved for you but not the people you correspond with 😃 .

has been a great help for me to find emails, works nicely in mutt (upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/20)

@agx Interesting! notmuch seems like a much more sophisticated version of a simple approach I wrote about in Linux Journal many years ago:

linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack

@kyle the nice thing about (even if using only INBOX) is it's speed.

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