I very new to this whole GTD, inbox zero and all the associated stuff. I’m also not a mac expert, only had mine for about a year. So if I am miss understanding something please let me know. With that said, I have a question for you.

If you create only smart mailboxes, won’t all your email still be in inbox thus negating the Inbox Zero idea?

As I understand it, smart mailboxes, don’t actually move anything they just link to it. So either you’d have to manually move them into an archive folder or maybe it’s possible to make a rule that all read messages are moved to archive folder.

I currently use rules to move my messages to folder when I receive them. How is this any better or worse than smart mailboxes?

Thanks, and please forgive any ignorance.