What is Inbox Zero?

Inbox Zero is not just "having no emails in your Inbox", its' also a process for how to achieve that state consistently. It's based on the Getting Things Done (GTD) principles and it takes lots of discipline, but there are some hacks.

The main premise of Inbox Zero is to never read the same email twice. There are only 5 possible actions for each email in your Inbox:

• Delete
  
• Delegate
  
• Defer
• Respond
• Do