These days I get an enormous amount of what I like to call requested SPAM. It comes from companies that you give permission to email you, but that continue mailing long after your interest in their product has died down. Add that to the deluge of emails from Facebook applications, work related stuff, blog related stuff and you start to develop a major inbox problem. Worse, you start to miss real emails amidst all of the junk that is not quite spam.
Today, I got proactive about it. I logged in and found, I am not joking, 1,600+ unread emails. A lot of them are read in Outlook and not read in GMail or vice versa, but it is fairly simple to sort out what needs to be kept and what doesn’t. While in the past I had created filters to send mail straight to the archive or trash, I had not played with the labels at all.
The first thing that I did was to go through and make a list of all of the Facebook applications names as they appeared in the email. I then created filters for all of these that would label them with “Facebook Spam.” I then sorted out all of the newsletters that I requested but rarely read as well as email news deliveries and gave them their own labels. Comment subscriptions got a label as did any work or blog related emails. I then went through by label and deleted or archived anything that needed to be gotten rid of. To cut a long story short, over a period of less than an hour I cut the 1600+ mails down to a more manageable 186. More importantly, my inbox is now configured to handle the volume of mail that I get and I am now less concerned about hitting subscribe.
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