My inbox is always empty. I unsubscribe from every spam email and sort the ones I actually want. It takes like 3 minutes per day.
I sort and delete all my emails in real time as I receive them.
Now I'm just envisioning a mid-90's Canadian CGI kid's show about Hercules and the Internet where this happens and everything is cubes
Select all, mark as read, ?????, profit.
or let google sort them for you.
I dont sort them but I kept it at exactly 7000 unread emails cause is a nice round number
I don't open my irl mail, it goes into a shoe box under my bed where I can feel anxiety about it.
I don't sort much nor delete. But I check emails right as they come in or at least by the end of the day. It's literally the easiest way. You never have to wade through hundreds of unread emails, you constantly have inbox zero. Then just don't delete them because you could need some of them, and you don't know which ones.
I just open a new email every so often, seems like nothing important really is in those 100000 emails anyway, mostly just ads
I'm gonna have to jump ship to another new new email soon :virgil-sad:
My go to was to search my gmail for senders or subjects I wanted to keep and mass move them into folders. Then just delete the rest. It was easiest using Thunderbird so I didn't have to deal with gmail.com's pagination. Damn near locked thunderbird up when I deleted like 18000 emails at once though
Just cull everything from 10,000 back, thats my method on the few occasions I've ever bothered, are you ever gonna need an email from that long ago?
are you ever gonna need an email from that long ago?
potentially yes, seeing as I just recently recovered an old account I'd forgotten every relevant detail for by being able to go through emails from 2007 and find the original plain-text email (mfw) they sent verifying what I set my questions/answers as.
this is why I'm in the situation I'm in to begin with. I am a natural data hoarder -- it takes me 30 minutes to decide what torrented game I haven't played in 2+ years I'm going to remove from my SSD to clear up some much needed space. God forbid this habit ever translates out into the physical world because I will drown in books or some shit
I am a natural data hoarder – it takes me 30 minutes to decide what torrented game I haven’t played in 2+ years I’m going to remove from my SSD to clear up some much needed space.
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God forbid this habit ever translates out into the physical world because I will drown in books or some shit
Luckily while I do hoard a bit in the physical world, it's not as bad. Having space to live in still comes first.
Edit: actually getting closer to the original topic, I hoard physical mail that seems at least somewhat important. It's a lot harder than hoarding email.
Jesus, its been like 10 years since an actual human being sent me an email. I just select all and delete once every few months.
Sorting and deleting emails? What's that? I have hundreds of thousands of emails that I haven't even looked at.
11000 and counting. I don't even know how I would get rid of that many.
