3 simple things help me manage my Gmail: I. A Filter that automatically applies the label "sub" to any email with the word "unsubscribe." This catches nearly a

3 simple things help me manage my Gmail: I. A Filter that automatically applies the label "sub" to any email with the word "unsubscribe." This catches nearly all impersonal emails with very few false positives. II. A bookmark(let) that filters out emails with that "sub" label. This is often a good place to start searching for more important emails. III. Two keyboard shortcuts that allow me to achieve "inbox-zero" in less than a second: 1. "*u" selects all unread conversations (custom binding to "1") 2. "I" marks selected emails as read. (custom binding to "2") I scan the list of unread emails, flagging the interesting one for later, then just hit 1 - 2 on the keyboard. Done! For everything else, I find search and manual tagging more convenient than categorizing email into bins (like notifications, receipts, newsletters, etc). I tried using Gmail's automatic sorting, but I ended up disabling it.) --- > Superhuman - I've heard a lot good things about it, but unfortunately it only works with Gmail accounts so again, it's a no-go If using Gmail to interface with your iCloud email is not a deal breaker, you can either have iCloud forward your email or have Gmail "pull" your iCloud email.