I'll leave directions here for when a sudden burst of motivation blindsides you.
- Sort by sender
- Unsubscribe from sender
- Delete everything from that sender
- Repeat until clean
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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This is actually useful, thank you!
Mark all as read, transfer all to archive
And if something really important gets caught in that, don't worry, they'll e-mail again. If they don't, it's clearly not that important.
Unsubscribing to shit you don't care about, using the search on the desktop client to be able to select 100s of emails and delete them at a time, and automatic filters are your friend.
And like someone else said, if it's over like a month old and unread, chuck it in an "archive" folder and mark all as read. They'll still be there if you absolutely need them, but won't be cluttering stuff up.
Don't try to manage it from the phone app, it's a pain in the ass.
Caveat: I say all this with even more unread than your picture, and having not done any cleanup of my inboxes (besides setting filters on my work one) in years. I just remember what did work for me the last time I was on top of my inbox for a few years in college.
i cleaned my inbox a few weeks ago. i now have five emails total in there, which is just the stuff i haven't done something about yet. it feels amazing everytime i look at it.
i also got new medication around that time. i'm sure that's a coincidence.
Yeah, gmail sucks these days. Their filters are crap. I moved to my own email server so I could have better spam filtering and customized rules to filter things.
every Wednesday my habitica pops up telling me to sort my new email inbox. left the g00g a year or two ago and been trying to stay on top of keeping this bitch clean
My PB
Whoa, I thought I couldn't be bested.
If we had a triathlon that included open browser tabs and old friends whose messages I haven't responded to, I think I have a good chance of medaling.
Mine forces me to keep it at zero all the time.
What? How? Just unsubscribe from shit you don’t want. Bin it all then tackle each mail as it lands.
Damn, I cannot stand an unread notification.
Yeah, I'll just commit myself to doing something now, instead of putting it off until I forget about it.
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