[artursapek]

The best thing I ever did in Gmail was filter the word "unsubscribe" to skip the inbox and go into a "Newsletters" label. Whenever I peek in there I see nothing but garbage, dozens of emails a day that I wouldn't have cared about. Right now it's sitting at 5,162 unread emails. It keeps my inbox almost always being things that are relevant or interesting.

I've shared this with a few friends who love it. It's pretty flawless. It's never caused me to miss any important emails (that I'm aware of).

[girvo]

I know it's silly, but this made me giggle: "It's never caused me to miss any important emails (that I'm aware of)."

[dmbass]

Why not just unsubscribe from all these useless newsletters?

[artursapek]

Oh man. They come at a dime a dozen. I think my method is much more effective.

[nikilster]

Yeah! That's basically Step #1 for me except I was too scared to actually unsubscribe (especially in college). Turns out I don't read any of them and for the most part my life is still good :)

[Bro_Merch]

That's the most brilliant simple solution I've ever heard.

[_smaugh]

Brilliant solution, nearly a 100% reliable though, what are the chances of an important email containing "unsubscribe" ??

another option could be using https://unroll.me/

[e12e]

That filter doesn't prevent you from reading email lists?

[artursapek]

Yeah that's been the one down-side. I've had to add an exception for the one email list I'm a part of.