Boring time…
Last night, I was up until around 4am, sorting through the last 15 years or so of my GMail, over 3600 emails all mixed together…
I found about 2100 of those emails were spam, reported and deleted of course. Then I spent the time to categorize the remaining valid ~1500 emails into sorted categories, mostly sorted by the site it pertains to.
It took over 4 hours…
Fun fun right? But I got it done!
I’m glad I was good about cleaning up my Inbox and archive folders regularly.
Not so glad it was spread across two Microsoft and 1 Google account for decades when I went to deGoogle (deAmerican really) and moved to a custom domain name email address.
8 hours manually changing addresses on accounts across the WWW.
It’s not too late for those who didn’t. If you’re efficiently cleaning up your inbox by searching for one source at a time and bulk archiving/deleting, then it doesn’t take much longer to go through many more emails.
A lot of providers also include an “unsubscribe” button somewhere which I’ve found handy. Sometimes their unsubscribe link doesn’t work for whatever reason