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It's pretty easy (less than 2 hours work per quarter) to build your own filtering system that works similarly effectively. Google built a bunch of ML systems t
by citrablue 8y ago
It's pretty easy (less than 2 hours work per quarter) to build your own filtering system that works similarly effectively.
Google built a bunch of ML systems that work by default for everyone. Personally, I just have a bunch of filters setup that do the same thing. Has taken minimal effort but some discipline to file incoming emails based on my own patterns.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThis is what I've done as well. Mostly for social updates. Even when I was on Gmail, I found issues using smart labels because they weren't supported by other IMAP clients: It's still one big inbox. So I ended up creating my own filter rules to move them to a different folder. I've done the same for some of the more prolific marketing emails I still want to receive but don't want cluttering my inbox. (Note that FastMail does have filters that classify your inbox like Gmail: Personal, Notifications, and Mailing Lists. But while I highly recommend FastMail, I don't use those features because the aforementioned manual sorting rules are better, I brought them over when I migrated as well.)