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Rank your inbox by storage. Delete the biggest first.
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I always assumed Gmail bloat came from large attachments. Turns out 3 senders were responsible for 30% of my inbox — thousands of tiny emails I'd never thought to clean up. I built mailtrim to surface this pattern: - ranks senders by actual storage impact (not just count) - confidence scoring on what's safe to bulk-delete - 30-day undo on everything — nothing is permanent by default - runs entirely locally, no email data leaves your machine Free, open source (MIT). No subscription, no backend. One friction point upfront: Gmail API setup is one-time, ~15 min. After that it's just `mailtrim…
Apr 2026
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The two most useful email filters that I have on my personal account automatically move the following messages to a "from-robots" folder: * Any message that contains the word "unsubscribe" * Any message from no-reply@ As a side note: please do not send emails from [email protected] If you want users to engage with your communications you need to give them an option to respond.
2022
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2025 · unfuck.email
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Dan Ariely and I are looking for ways to help people with high email load. One idea was Shortwhale, which we've tested for a few months now. The idea is super simple: It's a place to tell people how you prefer email and it offers a simple contact form that adds the necessary structure to email. Although technically trivial, it works extremely well for Dan. We have ideas on how to expand this but first we'd like to know if someone else might find this useful too (we know that this is only a solution for people who get tons of (unsolicited) email). Underlying to all of this is the idea to put…
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2024 · againstdata.com
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