It has already been suggested elsewhere (and significantly upvoted) that the Inbox should have more filtering features. I agree.
However, short of that, it would be good at a minimum to streamline the Inbox presentation as much as possible. For example, tasks that are all in the same project should be grouped under the project name, instead of repeating that n times. That would cut way down on the visual clutter, and organizes the inbox alerts in a way that the eye and the brain can better digest.