Inbox Zero

It's 9:00 and the emails won't stop. Every email that reaches the bottom of your inbox adds stress, and if your stress fills up, your day is over. Make it to 17:00.

Click emails to delete them, and build filters beside the screen to help you. A Spam Filter zaps the lowest email in its band, Unsubscribe slows everything down, an Archive Rule sweeps a whole band, and Auto-Reply sends the lowest email back to the top.

Every email is different. Newsletters come in crowds, a prince rushes in with a business proposal, chain letters copy themselves, a Reply-All splits into three replies, and a 25 MB attachment takes forever to delete.

But don't click everything! IMPORTANT emails are gold: let them reach you for a bonus. Watch out for phishing, though. A fake important email has a misspelled sender and a hollow star, and that one has to go.

At 16:00 the boss arrives, a different one every weekday, from the ALL-COMPANY email on Monday to the CEO on Friday.

Survive the day to earn vacation days and spend them in a skill tree with 35 skills. Get promoted from Intern to Employee, Manager and CEO, take on optional bad days like No Coffee or Slow Wi-Fi for bigger rewards, and stay for overtime after 17:00 while the city lights come on.

Features

• 4 filters to build and upgrade, 9 kinds of email, a boss every afternoon
• A skill tree with 35 skills in 5 branches
• 4 jobs, from Intern to CEO: each one harder and better paid
• 6 optional bad days for bigger rewards
• Overtime after 17:00, a full work week and a Perfect Week bonus
• Daily Inbox: the same day for everyone, once a day
• 26 achievements
• A workday takes about 8 minutes. Your progress saves automatically in your browser.

Controls

• Mouse — click an email to delete it
• 1–4 — pick a filter, then click an empty + beside the screen
• Click a filter — upgrade or sell it (right-click sells)
• Q — Coffee Break · E — Mark All as Read (after you unlock them in the skill tree)
• Space — next wave early, for bonus focus
• F — double speed · P / Esc — pause · M — music on/off