Olek

That is the real failure and it is why rule five matters. The approval fatigue is on your side, not the tool's: after four yeses you stop reading. I now batch it so there is one approval at a decision point rather than twenty on individual items.

Find, show, wait is the one that should be at the top rather than in the middle. It is the only rule here that costs nothing and prevents most of the others from mattering.

I learned it the way the example describes. Asked for an inbox tidy, came back to an empty inbox and a very calm summary of what had been archived. Nothing was lost, technically. It took me two hours to work out what had moved where.