I missed a ₹4L invoice follow-up because it was buried under 200 emails. Anyone else?

True story from a founder I spoke to last month. The client email was there. He'd seen it. But between 6 other "urgent" threads, it just slipped.

The invoice was 11 days overdue before he caught it.

This isn't a time management problem. It's a prioritization problem. When everything looks urgent, nothing is.

Has this happened to you? What did you lose: a deal, a client, a deadline? And what changed after?

Would love to hear real stories. No judgment. Inbox chaos is universal.