I created my first email account on 2/1/13. Its been 8 years, 3 months and 12 days as of writing this article. From my social accounts to some super spammy random websites that I don't remember signing up for. Every day a handful of emails hit my inbox no matter what. I don't read 99% of them. But they kept piling up day by day. so eventually I started missing the emails I wanted to read. My inbox became a place I hated to visit. But today I've decided to clean up everything, and make my inbox great again. Here are my tips after I've cleaned up more than 30000 emails.
🚫 Unsubscribe from notification emails, except for Security Emails. ( Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Github, Linkedin, Youtube etc. )
You either use their app or web platform. You get notifications there.
🏷 If you are using Gmail. use aliases to label emails. eg: you can use emails like [email protected], [email protected] etc, they will still get delivered to [email protected]. but you can filter and label them automatically.
🗑 Delete all unread emails. No, you won't read them later. delete them. if you are super scared manually delete for the past month or so and delete everything else in a click. I've deleted almost 30,000 emails like this and nothing happened.
❌ Delete or archive emails after you've read them. you can use Keyboard Shortcuts to speed things up.
"u" for archiving
"#" for deleting
Keyboard Shortcuts are disabled by default on Gmail. You can enable them from settings.
"Delete all unread emails. No, you won't read them later. delete them. " - This is actually freakin hard.
I was talking about the emails that piled up over the year 😀
Yes me too. I did this acrually once in 2016. Then I kept a clean inbox for years. And in 2020 I got carried away with some other things, so I deleted again almost 1,000 emails.