Just spent about 15 very frantic minutes trying to figure out why my very full Inbox suddenly contained no messages. Did I somehow delete them? Could I restore them from a backup? What was actually in there that I meant to save somewhere and obviously didn’t? Ultimately, I discovered that I somehow enabled a filtered view such that no messages were displayed. Yep, one stupid check box and, for a few minutes, my life seemed suddenly out of control. This experience has me thinking though: Why do I have so much stuff in my inbox and do I really need most of it? And, for those messages I do need, why is it that I haven’t found the time to put them somewhere safer before now? These are the things I ponder while I wait for my heart rate to return to a more normal range.