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Your inbox is worth much more than your money, if they can take both they will. They are already charging for additional storage, so I expect it will just conti
by jcutrell 5y ago
Your inbox is worth much more than your money, if they can take both they will. They are already charging for additional storage, so I expect it will just continue on that path.
- njhaveri 5y agoAgreed, I think they'll just never increase the free storage again. Eventually, people will get tired of quarterly inbox cleanups and just pay for the extra storage, which is a win-win for them and avoids a serious PR crisis.
- azinman2 5y agoI’m surprised there aren’t some great tools out there that help with this. Seems like a niche to fill as it’s inevitable that peoples free storage hits limits over time.
- Dyac 5y agoI know of two. https://mailstrom.co/ https://mailstrom.co/ https://clean.email/ https://clean.email/
- azinman2 5y agoMailstrom seems to be about unsubscribing, as somewhat does clean.email (ironically I find their home page to be the opposite of clean). I'm talking about finding the random 40 meg videos my dad sent me that should have been a YouTube link. Ideally such a tool WOULD find the YouTube link, and edit the email to include that.
- davchana 5y agoYou could search gmail emails by operator like larger_than:10mb or such.
- azinman2 5y agoYou absolutely could as an initial step in a poor man's solution. However, I wouldn't call this a great UX. It means that all the ones I want to keep will continue to appear every time I need to cleanup. That doesn't group by sender, nor does it sorting out YouTube-like forwards from my dad's friends from the actual content my dad has sent. I could go on and on for what I'd consider a great cleanup experience. It's surprising to me that such a thing doesn't exist, nor is it the kind of thing that's built into Gmail itself. You'd figure they would be best to offer a simple cleanup experience that has sane defaults.
- samus 5y agoWhat about Ctrl + A, Del? I'm only half-joking. How many emails older than 3 months in a mailbox growing beyond GBs are really worth saving? I don't want to sound harsh - that's just how my mailbox looks like.
- azinman2 5y agoYou're throwing away all your history in doing so. Personally I never want to delete emails from loved ones, which is where most of the storage ends up going anyway.
- fomine3 5y agoIs your mail box filled by lovely emails rather than newsletters/ads, really? Text emails could take small amount of volume. Maybe many photos are attached?
- azinman2 5y agoNewsletters & ads typically link externally to images rather than embed. I would guesstimate less than 10-20% of my storage (not total number of emails) is newsletters.
- samus 5y agoI agree that genuine exchanges with the people in your life should be kept. As well as anything about purchases, invoices, salary notes etc. But my point is that these days newsletters, spam, notifications, ads, etc. make up a huge part of many people's email traffic. If you are in the habit of exchanging a large amount of documents and pictures over email, a dedicated storage solution might be more appropriate. Work-related communication, as in freelancing, might deserve a separate mailbox that is kept clean of unimportant things.
- iamacyborg 5y agoYou’d be surprised. A few days ago it was useful to look back at emails I’d received over a decade ago to work out when and how well some specialist book I’d books had sold.
- Scoundreller 5y agoIunno, my inbox gets increasingly useless every year. Facebook emails me about a message but stopped including the message in the email. Online sellers email me that order #2748747284933938 has had its status updated. Click link and yippee, it’s gone from order received to processing. That’s the email. Thanks. It’s really annoying and turns me off using those products.
- advisedwang 5y agoOrder status update might not be valuable, but the knowledge that you purchased product X is. That's a biggie for targeted ads.
- dylan604 5y agoIf only they'd use that targeting more efficiently as in "don't send ads to some that has recently purchased".
- inglor_cz 5y agoYeah, Google seems to think that if I buy a washing machine, I am on some kind of washing machine buying spree.
- brimble 5y agoIf a user who hasn't bought a washing machine recently is 0.1% likely to be interested in a washing machine ad, and one who has is 0.2% likely to be interested, then they may be making the right call, even if for most people that second number is 0.0%. A few outliers can really skew those kinds of things.
- inglor_cz 5y agoYeah, it might be a strange statistical artifact. Perhaps someone is buying washing machines for an entire dormitory and isn't satisfied with the first test model. Such people, while rare, might be valuable enough to push new washing machine ads on everyone.