Does Anyone Unclutter Their Email?

[the_broken_tower]

I went through a round of email purging. 3k+ emails in one category have gone to within 2k.

Over the next year or so I'd like to clean up old emails until everything that is needed/desired is in its own folder, and everything else has been deleted.

- Olai

Comments

[arlie]

I fear mine are a lost cause, though switching to a new provider earlier this year helped somewhat.

[the_broken_tower]

New email inboxes from new jobs are partially what kickstarted the personal email purging.

Everything in those gets moved into a folder or deleted immediately. University and personal email are another issue.

- Olai

[fred_mouse]

I have some filters that move 'whenever I feel like it' emails into folders that I look at occasionally and read a few and delete lots unread. I like the idea of having a nearly empty inbox so that only what is important is in there. But in terms of old ones? No, I just file them

I do 'declutter' my subscriptions on a reasonably regular basis. I'm moving away from email subscriptions when there is an RSS option. I'm not more likely to read the RSS, but it doesn't clutter my inbox.

[the_broken_tower]

Thankfully there aren't many emails that specifically get saved... So I can pick a category that almost never has something useful in it and delete away.

The specifically saved categories are something to contend with later.

- Olai

[adafrog]

Good luck! I'm also trying to pare down my emails.

[the_broken_tower]

Best of luck

- Olai

[adafrog]

Thanks. :)