My email is useless. It's become so clogged with automated notifications that I legitimately can't sift out the useful stuff. I can barely even manage to reliab

My email is useless. It's become so clogged with automated notifications that I legitimately can't sift out the useful stuff. I can barely even manage to reliably find all the messages sent by actual humans. I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail. No combination of configurations, rules, or filtering fixes this problem for longer than a week. Even if I do manage to turn the eighty gazillion auto-emailing systems down to a dull roar, somehow they manage to ramp themselves back up again. The problem with email isn't email, it's that we've tried to make it do double-duty as a communications medium and a push notification system. These are different things and they shouldn't be in the same stream. As much as I dislike Slack, et al. for being just another distraction I have to check and keep up with, they did manage to isolate communications from the noise for a little while. Of course, because we can't help ourselves, on day two everyone started writing Slack bots to channel notifications into the chat.