Triage

Archive. Reply. Spam. You have about a second.

Emails land in your inbox faster than you can think. Read the subject, hit one of three keys, move on. Seven can wait at once; the eighth ends your day. Get one wrong and it comes back — and it tells you exactly why you were wrong, which is the only tutorial this game has.

Following up on my last email — Reply. Someone is waiting on you.
IT Service Desk: verify your credentials within 24 hours — Spam. IT never asks by email.
Quick question about your tech stack — Spam. A sales email wearing a question mark.

The rules fit in a sentence. The difficulty is entirely in the reading, and the mean ones are mean on purpose: an automated notification that happens to contain a question, a cold sales pitch that opens like a colleague, a genuine invoice from a vendor you have never heard of.

Clear all 45 for Inbox Zero. Do it without a single misfile and that is spotless — which is rare, and is the thing to chase. Today's inbox is the same for everyone, and there is a streak.

A run takes about a minute. No sound, nothing to install, nothing to sign up for. Over a shoulder it looks like you are finally clearing your inbox.

Controls

A Archive · S Reply · D Spam. On a phone, tap the buttons.

Made for people who are bored at a desk, by someone who was.