I feel like Inbox Zero is mostly for people that receive massive quantities of email that they also have to <i>act</i> on.<p>For people like me who mostly receive updates and notifications via email and only occasionally receive actionable content through email it doesn&#x27;t make sense to have some sort of superset of methods on top of what my email software already provides.<p>I read the stuff that&#x27;s interesting to me, I pin things I need to take care of later or remember (I use Inbox), I reply to things that need replying to which typically only happens a handful of times per week, and that&#x27;s that.<p>If I ever get to the point where I am pinning several emails per week and find that I have to act or reply on more than the handful of emails per week that I already do I will consider a method for staying on top of my inbox but until then the built-in tools already do it well enough for me.<p>Also I would start by looking into the tools themselves to see how they could help me, rather than inventing a set of rules for how to use my inbox. Filtering, bundles in Inbox, etc.<p>But hey, to each their own. I would get stressed out with an Inbox Zero mindset.