Gmail

Created: 2020-10-27 08:43:42 -0700 Modified: 2023-11-13 05:06:22 -0800

Hotkeys (reference)

§Section titled Hotkeys (reference)

• Ctrl+alt+,: set focus to the right bar (e.g. to get to the calendar)

Clearing space

§Section titled Clearing space

• There are ways to find the largest emails, but I think the bulk of my usage comes from many small emails, e.g. USPS’s daily digests with images of incoming mail. It can help to search for “has:attachment larger:500K” and look for patterns.
• Deleting like 5000 random emails at once saved ~170 M (the “Forums” and “Promotions” categories that I had).
  • IMO, this isn’t worth it. There’s too much of a risk of deleting something with value.

Troubleshooting

§Section titled Troubleshooting

Filters aren’t skipping the inbox properly (i.e. they’re bypassing archival) (reference)

§Section titled Filters aren’t skipping the inbox properly (i.e. they’re bypassing archival) (reference)

Apparently important emails don’t get archived, so the filter should be modified to mark them as unimportant.