Thanks for the responses. I feel better now in the sense that I am not alone finding issues with Inbox system in AC. Users seem to have found their own ways to deal with the issue, which unfortunately is not a satisfactory.

Leslie,
So, as I understand, I can have, at a time, one patient's chart open and not more, though I can have more patients' charts open if I used correspondingly more number of computers. I can see that this would work reasonably well with your office system.

Today, I have been signing off even the encounters that are not complete for fear of losing information that is there.

One question:
If I wanted to enter further information on a patient in the sections on past/social/allergies sections on a patient's chart in between encounters, will I have to send the chart to Inbox? I can't send it back to Patient List unless I sign it in which case does it become another "encounter?"