Ask HN: How do you organize Gmail as a dev? I am just curious how people are organizing their emails and keeping everything sorted. Saw this tutorial on organizing into Follow-Up, Awaiting Response and To Read Labels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLdHnWLbn4A How do you guys keep everything sorted and what's your typically workflow? |
Once every few weeks, I'll mass archive everything left over in the inbox (that's not starred or snoozed). Meaning they just disappear into the cloud and never get dealt with. I figure if it's important enough they'll email me again anyway...
This means that by the end of an average day, I have between 0 and 5 massages left in the inbox. It keeps the daily responsibilities manageable.
Has worked well for the last decade or so. Good enough for me.
I used to follow a more detailed organizational process with email, but I found that doing that took more time and effort than it was worth.
The most I do is have some filters to slap labels on things and "archive" items I don't want showing in the overall inbox.