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c/digital-hoarders-anonymousnina_hall48nina_hall4810d agoProlific Poster

Hit 50,000 unread emails and finally saw the light

I've been ignoring my inbox for years. Just kept marking stuff as unread thinking I'd get back to it. Then I got a notification on my phone last month that said I hit 50,000 unread emails. Fifty thousand! That's more than the population of my whole town. I sat there and thought about how much time I waste scrolling through junk trying to find one important message from a client. My buddy who runs a repair shop told me he started using folders and filters to sort his invoices and it changed his life. So I spent a whole Sunday setting up a system where anything from my dog grooming clients goes straight into a "Clients" folder, newsletters go to a different one, and bills auto-delete after 30 days. Now I'm down to about 200 unread and I actually feel like I can breathe. Has anyone else hit a crazy number that made them finally change? What was yours?
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fiona_hunt71
fiona_hunt7110d agoOG Member
Bills auto-delete after 30 days" is genius, I might steal that idea.
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nathankim
nathankim10d ago
srsly tho best life hack ive found. used to have like 20 tabs open for random bills and it was a mess. now i just set everything on autopay and forget it. 30 day auto delete wouldve saved me so much headache back then.
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