If that system works for you, great! For a lot of people it doesn&#x27;t, hence all the praise for Inbox Zero.<p>You&#x27;re allowed to have your own system for managing e-mail, just like you can put your pencils wherever you want on your desk. Or hey, let&#x27;s be crazy! You can even have no pencils on your desk!<p>I think this piece is for people for whom e-mail is a chore and for whom it is common practice to stare blankly at their inbox thinking &quot;Oh, I should just reply....&quot; and then spend an hour to write &quot;OK&quot; in the reply. If you&#x27;re good at e-mail already then awesome.