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I'm pretty much awful at maintaining my inbox. I don't know how people do it. There's just so much junk and I get like 1 important email for every 5000 unimport

• mrec 5y ago
  No one weird trick, just the obvious. Don't sign up for too much, strictly limit your inbox to one page, delete or handle+archive as necessary to achieve that. I've been using Gmail since 2004 and am currently using 0.54 GB of my 15 GB quota; I've never regretted deleting anything later. When you say "so much junk", are you talking about spam that Gmail isn't catching? Or just legitimate mail you don't find very interesting?
• throwawayboise 5y ago
  Just delete everything over 90 days old.
• GreenWatermelon 5y ago
  Take a day to religiously unsubscribe from trash. it's likely that over the years you've signed up for many news letters (because of shitty dark patterns) that keep spamming you. All those emails are required by law to include an easy unsubscribe link in the email, usually it's at the very bottom in a small font.
• tomjen3 5y ago
  I found that my email has the same problem my real world has: it isn't that hard to keep stuff organized when it is clear where each thing goes. When it is not clear, or there isn't a good place to put it, stuff starts to pile up. Once I have figured out where it should go, which is 99.99% of the effort, actually getting it there usually isn't that big a deal. You can organize 500 emails in an hour if you have set the systems and the shortcuts up - less if you can do it with filters.