Yeah, that's one of the most valuable tips I got from the whole GTD thing: stop your email client notifying you when new email arrives. Productive email is asynchronous.
Closing it down is best, but when I accidentally leave it open I still don't want the message count visible. In addition to enabling the Labs feature to turn off the inbox count in the web UI, I also have a one-line Greasemonkey script to remove it from the document/tab title.
Closing it down is best, but when I accidentally leave it open I still don't want the message count visible. In addition to enabling the Labs feature to turn off the inbox count in the web UI, I also have a one-line Greasemonkey script to remove it from the document/tab title.