How to clear your inbox: One writer reveals how she went from 23,768 emails to none – Independent August 15, 2014 by Fulcrum I was drowning in email. Overwhelmed. Overloaded. Spending hours a day, it seemed, roiling in an unending onslaught of info turds and falling further and further behind. The day I returned from a two-week break, I had 23,768 messages in my inbox; 14,460 of them unread. Brigid Schulte. Independent. 13 August 2014 FulcrumShareTweetShare