Inbox Zero, but the Inbox Belongs to a Robot

8:30 AM: you kick off the inbox-zero loop while the coffee brews. 8:35 AM: yesterday's 50 unread messages are sorted into four buckets, replies are drafted for the ones that matter, the noise is archived, and you've approved the lot with a few keystrokes. The rest of the day, the inbox only contains new mail. That's the daily rhythm an email agent can sustain — and the daily part is the whole trick. Inbox zero has never been hard to reach once; it's hard to keep, because the maintenance is bori...