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by thinky_thoughts 1195 days ago
This tiny script keeps my gmail inbox clean and manageable.

It auto-archives any emails older than 2 days (you can change this obviously) unless they're starred - this changes my email experience in two ways:

1) My email inbox ONLY has emails that are either new or that I decided were relevant. I have two days to notice this.

2) When I'm scanning my email, if I see something important that I don't have time to deal with, I can star it and keep moving and know that it'll still be visible and in a manageable-size queue later.

When I travel off-grid it is a bit of a pain since I have to go through a lot of archives, but that can be addressed by just turning it off.

I also ruthlessly unsubscribe to things I've stopped reading to keep everything manageable.

https://github.com/AlexMakiJokela/Gmaid

1 comments

Oh man this is cool, i would definitely want to delete certain mail after a week or so like the subscribed news or mail notifications.