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... but I emptied my work e-mail InBox this morning.
This hasn't happened in years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quick! Set up a Rule: "All incoming mail" ... "Send to Junk mail folder" 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Long ago, when we still had physical inboxes, a coworker of mine spent some time the quiet days between Christmas and New Year to work through his inbox. Near the bottom of it, he found a wall calendar for the year that still had three days left.
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A few years ago, the team I was working with decided we needed a holiday planner for the year, so ordered one which arrived about the 18th March as I recall. We hadn't decided where to put it by the following Tuesday, 24th March 2020, when the UK government order a lockdown because of Covid-19 and we've all worked from home ever since!
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By "emptied", do you mean deleted/filed or just read?
I rarely delete anything from my Outlook mailbox and's currently showing that, across all folders, I have 88,913 unread messages! 6 of those are in the InBox.
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I use my InBox as something of a "to-do" list. Messages will sit there for days, weeks, sometimes 2-3 months. Once something's completed, it get moved to a topic/product/project folder.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My retirement age exceeds my life expectancy, so no.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Should we rename the Towers of Hanoi the Towers of e-Mail? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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People at work are stunned when, for example in a screen sharing session, they notice how organized my inbox is. I currently have 4 items, 3 flagged as important. Everything else is organized into folders by customer and third-party vendors, often with sub-folders on particular tasks and email correspondences. While the main inbox is not often totally empty, the # of items usually doesn't exceed a dozen by the end of each day. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Same here - but I never let others see it
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I joke that I cause rain by closing all my notepad++ tabs. It leaves a local vacuum and pulls in all the clouds.
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Same. And the last tab is new20!
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Which idiot ever came to the idea that editing MSOffice documents in a browser would be a good idea ?
No, I do NOT WANT TO EDIT MY DOCUMENTS in a Freaking browser, because as the name says, it is a BROWSER and not an EDITOR.
Sorry, I had to vent. Please give me my IT world back from 10 years ago - Everything has only been going downhill since then.
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What gave you the idea that you are in control? 
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Rage wrote: Which idiot ever came to the idea that editing MSOffice documents in a browser would be a good idea ?
Google? (lots of competition from Google Suite in browser) 
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Let me introduce you to the Chromebook...
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Rage wrote: Please give me my IT world back from 10 years ago
Pretty sure CodeMirror is an editor that it built to run in a browser. Well more specifically it is a component that runs in a page that runs in a browser.
It was released in 2007.
Looking at it I can see it even claims to work on cell/mobile devices.
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Not only document editing. The same goes for software development tools. And photo / video / sound editing. And whathaveyou.
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I kept my Windows 8 machine ... so they can't take that away from me. I plan to do the same up the line.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Rage wrote: Please give me my IT world back from 10 years ago - Everything has only been going downhill since then.
I agree
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Not only that, but the browser based Office applications are crap. Excel On-Line doesn't properly report circular references; Word On-Line can't format itself out of a wet paper bag; Project On-Line is 100% useless, etc.
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You should try Outlook on web. A lot of very basic functionality is still not available.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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With you on that my friend! In a long career I haven't yet come across a well-designed browser app whose UX is anything like as good as the native equivalent. Even with all the fancy JS or other libraries, browser app UIs remain awkward and clunky.
And don't get me started on touchscreen cellphone apps.. Uggh!
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With you on that my friend! In a long career I haven't yet come across a well-designed browser app whose UX is anything like as good as the native equivalent. Even with all the fancy JS or other libraries, browser app UIs remain awkward and clunky.
And don't get me started on touchscreen cellphone apps.. Uggh!
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