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In fairness, if you're as bad as I am at actually deleting email, you probably had something like 15 years less email accumulation. I also ran it on a netbook

In fairness, if you're as bad as I am at actually deleting email, you probably had something like 15 years less email accumulation. I also ran it on a netbook (some variant of a 901?) for a couple years, and it was great. I'm also pretty sure it would be less great now, even if I were running the same version.

tacotacotaco 4y ago
Same situation. A few years ago I started moving old emails into yearly sub folders (just moved all of last years emails into a “2022” folder). This improved performance a lot for me. I’m guessing the smaller folders of emails keep the index files small. Search still works through all of those folders.
NavinF 4y ago
> as bad as I am at actually deleting email People delete email? I started using the gmail's "archive" button in ~2009 and now I see 112,315 conversations in the "all mail" section. That's probably 200k emails in total. The fact that web mail always runs at the same speed regardless of how much mail you have is seriously underappreciated. (Some operations like creating a filter and applying it to all past conversations does take 5 seconds, but this doesn't block the UI so it's not a deal breaker)
- gattilorenz 4y ago
  I don’t even archive them, I mark them as read and leave them in the inbox. What is the advantage of the archive, if you have to rely on search to find stuff anyway?
  - NavinF 4y ago
    "mark as read" happens automatically whereas archive is an explicit action (pressing "e" on your keyboard after enabling hotkeys or swiping the email on mobile) This lets you turn the inbox into a sort of TODO list that only shows you stuff that's still pending. Of course you also have to use filters aggressively if you wanna maintain inbox-zero without having to manually archive every "your bank statement is ready" email.

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In fairness, if you're as bad as I am at actually deleting email, you probably had something like 15 years less email accumulation. I also ran it on a netbook

by mauvehaus 4y ago

tacotacotaco 4y ago
Same situation. A few years ago I started moving old emails into yearly sub folders (just moved all of last years emails into a “2022” folder). This improved performance a lot for me. I’m guessing the smaller folders of emails keep the index files small. Search still works through all of those folders.
NavinF 4y ago
> as bad as I am at actually deleting email People delete email? I started using the gmail's "archive" button in ~2009 and now I see 112,315 conversations in the "all mail" section. That's probably 200k emails in total. The fact that web mail always runs at the same speed regardless of how much mail you have is seriously underappreciated. (Some operations like creating a filter and applying it to all past conversations does take 5 seconds, but this doesn't block the UI so it's not a deal breaker)
- gattilorenz 4y ago
  I don’t even archive them, I mark them as read and leave them in the inbox. What is the advantage of the archive, if you have to rely on search to find stuff anyway?
  - NavinF 4y ago
    "mark as read" happens automatically whereas archive is an explicit action (pressing "e" on your keyboard after enabling hotkeys or swiping the email on mobile) This lets you turn the inbox into a sort of TODO list that only shows you stuff that's still pending. Of course you also have to use filters aggressively if you wanna maintain inbox-zero without having to manually archive every "your bank statement is ready" email.