I have so much old stuff in my email folders I can get rid of... this is hugely appealing.
I'll have to sit down and really think through this before I jump in - because knowing myself (leap and then look), I might have a few "uh oh" moments if I don't, lol
I didn’t delete any emails just the folder. Someday I’ll have the courage to do that too. But as we say that’s not a today problem and with AI search it’s more of a storage issue which I have plenty of space.
Organizing is always the first step. If you've gone through it, you're part way there, and then it's just finding what works for your process. For me, it was doing the initial triage so that I could go into each space with a clear mindset.
The useful part isn’t the script. It’s the cleanup and the trust.
Most people try to automate their inbox without fixing the mess first. That just makes the mess move faster. Deciding what matters. Setting up folders that actually make sense. Then, getting out of your own way and letting it run. This is where it usually fails. Not because the tool doesn’t work, but because people don’t let it do the job.
I have so much old stuff in my email folders I can get rid of... this is hugely appealing.
I'll have to sit down and really think through this before I jump in - because knowing myself (leap and then look), I might have a few "uh oh" moments if I don't, lol
I didn’t delete any emails just the folder. Someday I’ll have the courage to do that too. But as we say that’s not a today problem and with AI search it’s more of a storage issue which I have plenty of space.
I cleaned up my Gmail recently after various health setbacks had me neglecting it.
What I did wasn't perfect, so I'm going to bookmark this and go through it properly to see if I can fix it permanently.
Organizing is always the first step. If you've gone through it, you're part way there, and then it's just finding what works for your process. For me, it was doing the initial triage so that I could go into each space with a clear mindset.
The useful part isn’t the script. It’s the cleanup and the trust.
Most people try to automate their inbox without fixing the mess first. That just makes the mess move faster. Deciding what matters. Setting up folders that actually make sense. Then, getting out of your own way and letting it run. This is where it usually fails. Not because the tool doesn’t work, but because people don’t let it do the job.
Clean up and trust - I keep coming back to this.
The trust was a bug hurdle for me - not the system I built but can I remove that first layer and still be involved in the decisions.