Maintaining a clean inbox takes a lot of work. The more you’re active online, the more you use your email. This also makes it susceptible to spam, unwanted newsletters and other subscriptions. Not only does this clog your inbox with a mix of important content and mails that are complete trash, it makes it difficult to differentiate between the two. Plus, it’s just plain exhausting. Luckily, there are people out there who know how to take care of this problem and are willing to share their secrets.
Twitter user Franchesca Ramsey tweeted a thread pointing out simple steps that can help clean-up inboxes in just 10 minutes day.
I dunno who needs to hear this but, there’s no reason for you to have one THOUSAND unread emails in your inbox, half of which are spam from 5 years ago.
take 10 mins a day to mass delete, unsubscribe, filter and respond as needed. consider it spring cleaning. you can do this.
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) April 25, 2019
She explained how to get rid of e-receipts, unwanted chains, and blatant phishing, as well as tips for utilizing folders and other processes that should be easy. Can we all agree Gmail should come with a users manual?
let’s start with bills. if you get an email every time you pay your cell bill ect. you can delete ALL those emails! free yourself. open one, copy the “from” address, do a search in your inbox for anything from that address and DELETE pic.twitter.com/9bS1QEnKTu
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) April 25, 2019
next: unsubscribe and/or mark as spam. lots of email lists hide the usub link in tiiiiiiny print at the bottom of their long ass email. but if you can’t be bothered to scroll gmail has you covered! you can usub right in the from line, or when you mark as spam pic.twitter.com/pb4yXAJ530
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) April 25, 2019
The thread quickly went viral, with thousands of people liking the comments and praising Ramsey for her advice. Many people were shocked that Ramsey only had a thousand unread emails, proving they had it way worse:
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) April 26, 2019
How do you live, guys?
Check out the full thread here and get to cleaning.
