how many unread emails you usually got?

lol, wrong dude

do you all read emails sequentially? (moreso for business than personal).

I don't use a threaded view in Outlook, but if I get an email that's part of a thread, I just read the most recent and then read all of the previous ones there, so I know what the latest is and the history of discussion.

but I do know a lot of people who start at the bottom and work their way up, so they might respond to an early email in a thread that has since been contradicted later. like, maybe a thread says "can you send me a mockup of your latest presentation", and 5 emails in someone says "actually, I'd like to hold off doing that until further internal review", but the person sees the old email first and sends the presentation before they see that later they were asked not to.

idk if i'm the weird one or not, i always assume people read the older messages first even though I don't.

If I've been on vacation, then yeah I go reverse chronological sometimes. I'll also read ILX threads from the bottom up. :)

well, yeah.

Although it seems like bottom up has a different meaning in both cases but maybe that's what you intended.

I love reading ILX threads from bottom up, feels like watching a prequel to a horror film

RIght. Often there is a Natives Are Restless/Dr. Livingston I Presume moment when one is close enough to the headwaters of the thread and detects the scent of an OLDE ILXXE Troll like C-man in the wind.

^helluva description there

And then the drums stop, and it's very, very bad because...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKyJou39Kks

^6:15

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good spread

the moderately responsible middle is the least represented! good job ILX!

Has nothing to do with responsibility

I will die on this hill with my unorganized tens of thousands of unread emails

If they were letters, they would be a literal hill to die on, and lo, we would think you were mad. I salute you.

I save all my important letters fwiw

returned to work for the first time since 6/27, and...only had 130 unread emails! mind boggled, that's....really not that many! - in my previous role, that woulda been 1,000 - 2,000 at least.

and yet still, I can't begin working until all of them are read, even if I flag them as important for later. or it'll drive me nuts.