I'm going to admit right up front that I'm a recovering email overflow junkie. And I'm therefore one of the most rigid people you'll meet about email management. I'm not perfect, but I'm striving every day.

[Current inbox count: 37.]

I used to let nearly 2,000 emails pile up in my inbox. And I know why that was so easy -- a quick search shows that over the past month, I've sent and received more than 2,300 emails. Wow. In the scheme of things, 1,800 or so messages in my inbox wasn't that much.

And yet.

When I'm sorting through nearly 2,000 messages, it's so easy to forget that one important item. So -- after a lot of false starts -- I cleaned up my act, and now, I [mostly] use my email inbox as a place to see messages coming in -- but NOT as my to-do list.

So I have to say, I do still take some perverse pleasure from reading about people who are still stuck in email hell.