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Gmail filters. Take a month. Whenever an email comes in that is not actionable, unsubscribe, or create a rule that either trashes it or sends it to a low prio
by cameldrv 9y ago
Gmail filters. Take a month. Whenever an email comes in that is not actionable, unsubscribe, or create a rule that either trashes it or sends it to a low priority folder. PayPal notifications of monthly statements, your credit card bill has been paid, mailing lists, make a rule for all of em. Now your inbox contains almost exclusively email from a person to you. This makes it far easier to operate at inbox zero.
- over_score 9y agoThere's a nice open source alternative I use called imapfilter by Lefteris Chatzimparmpas. I have it set to run every 2 minutes on a remote server and have the config file in an svn repo. It's easy to add new rules locally, and I have it set to auto-deploy when I commit a change. It's also pretty powerful. For example, any email in my "Newsletters" folder is automatically deleted if it's 30 days old. Same as the above comment, it only works if you are diligent about adding new rules, but after a while you'll notice that the only emails in your inbox are important. When moving to this type of system, instead of manually deleting or moving an email from your inbox, add a rule to do it for you, commit it, and watch the email disappear from your inbox. Write the rule once and you'll never have to deal with that type of email again.