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by JZL003 763 days ago
I go through a lot of emails and what I love recently is being able to sort by sender - then all the emails from the same person are together and it's easier to skim through ("yup, all these are uneeded except this unusual one")

Annoyingly thunderbird allow but not gmail, so I wanted to use thunderbird. But it doesn't easily allow archive-ing, like GMail does.

Contrived but still easy solution: tag all your inbox you want to go through with two labels SetA and SetB. Open SetA in thunderbird, using `a` to remove emails from SetA as if you archived. Then in GMail, use the search `label:setB - label:SetA` and it gives all the emails you wanted to archive. Archive those and done

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If you go through a lot of emails, you may be interested in a small product I have developed.

GabrielAI (https://getgabrielai.com) can filter your emails given a GPT prompt and then make a special action, like drafting a reply or apply a label.

I am now introducing a digest if emails. So that every 6 hours (or whatever time) you receive an email with the summary of all the unread emails in your inbox.

It is free for now, but the summary feature is hide by a feature flag.

If you are interested, I can ungate your account.

> GabrielAI will share data from Gmail with 3rd party AI model.

ah yes, since that's what I want all my communications fed through

I believe it's technically possible in Gmail by turning off conversation threading in the settings.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any quick way of toggling between threaded and non-threaded.

In Thunderbird, can't you just move mail from Inbox to All Mail to archive? I don't use archive on my personal inbox in Gmail so not sure how it works.