[mlangenberg]

In Gmail, I try to archive or delete everything that I’m done with, but it’s difficult to keep up with many notifications flowing in, which I don’t delete immediately or are relevant for the next few days and I never get back to. It’s easy to get behind.

I’ll try your approach of setting up a default section for ‘is:starred OR is:unread’ and stop bothering with the archive step.

[Brajeshwar]

If you look at it, everything is eventually archived. You have to stop looking at it; hence the `is:starred OR is:unread`.

I don't delete emails except for ephemeral transactional emails. I still have emails from the early 2000s and have surprised people by replying from then or continuing a conversation, reminding them that we talked way back in time.