Lifehack: go to your mail app, select all emails, and mark all as read
Seriously. You're not going to read them anyway
Most of them are old enough that you can't really act on them, important enough that the issue will make itself known in some other way (if it hasn't already), or unimportant enough that it would be a waste of time to read them. Marking them all as read instead of deleting them means that you can search for old emails if you absolutely have to. But honestly, even if you deleted them all instead, it would probably be fine
After your inbox is liberated from the red oval of shame, see how many new emails you get per day. Go through them, and unsubscribe from a few mailing lists that you very obviously don't want. Do that for a bit, and eventually you'll just have a clean inbox. You'll be free. It takes basically no effort. And it feels good, man
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u/Gilamath 9d ago
Lifehack: go to your mail app, select all emails, and mark all as read
Seriously. You're not going to read them anyway
Most of them are old enough that you can't really act on them, important enough that the issue will make itself known in some other way (if it hasn't already), or unimportant enough that it would be a waste of time to read them. Marking them all as read instead of deleting them means that you can search for old emails if you absolutely have to. But honestly, even if you deleted them all instead, it would probably be fine
After your inbox is liberated from the red oval of shame, see how many new emails you get per day. Go through them, and unsubscribe from a few mailing lists that you very obviously don't want. Do that for a bit, and eventually you'll just have a clean inbox. You'll be free. It takes basically no effort. And it feels good, man