Almost back to Inbox Zero

I don't remember when I started hearing about it but I started earnestly trying to keep my GMail Inbox tidy starting 2016, when I started working full time at Enthought. I vaguely remember spending a full weekend going through my Inbox and archiving or deleting all emails.

I remember running into a lot of nostalgia as I was going through emails from when I was in college, which is when I started using GMail seriously. Mails about coursework, mails with photos and videos my and friends of mine took when we went out to eat.

I let myself go over the last few months and emails started piling up in my Inbox. Mainly because I periodically go through a cycle of subscribing to more newsletters and email groups than I can possibly keep up with and then culling them to reduce clutter in my Inbox.

After many months, I finally spent this weekend cleaning up my Inbox - reading through a lot of finshots (https://finshots.in/), labelling and archiving financial information, deleting promotional emails and so on.

I'm now finally down to 29 emails in my Inbox with 19 unread emails - most of which are related to financial education. I need to spend time over the coming months reading up and understanding some of the financial jargon that I have come across in the past few months. I think it is very important for me to understand the various concepts involved in basic investing - so that I can both make good investments and I can help those around me in making financial decisions.

Now that I am down to less than 1 page of emails (1 page in GMail is 50 emails), I want to keep it that way in the near future. Let's see how long I'll be able to keep it up this time.

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