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Umm...I use multiple inboxes in Gmail, so that I can attempt to do Inbox Zero (in a nutshell: deal with all my incoming mail immediately) while still keeping stuff that I need to deal with later visible. So, when I open Gmail, I see my main inbox, and then to the right: grad school things to do later, lab things to do later, other things to do later, and reference (for things I don't need to really deal with but want to keep around for later--a knitting pattern I want to eventually knit, for example, or a particularly insightful comment that I want to be able to quote in appropriate discussions).

So when a comment notification that I want to reply to comes in, I either reply to it immediately or move it to "other things to do later" or "reference." And every time I go through those inbox categories, I'll probably read it, go reread the post, think about commenting, and either leave it some more, comment and delete the notification, or delete the notification without commenting.

Hmm. Or. Rereading what I originally wrote: my Dreamwidth is about 50/50 personal journal and recs journal, so I bookmark things I may want to rec with "Read It Later" Firefox add-on I also keep a mental list of "fantastic things I've read that I want to comment on eventually." If I decide to comment, I can look up the page on Read It Later and do so. If it falls off my mental list, it wasn't awesome enough to deserve the effort, or I'll rediscover it when I look through the Read It Later list for things to rec.

...and that was waaaaaaaaaaaay more than you wanted to know, sorry.