![]() Next, I cleared the Updates and Social tabs with these search strings. So here are the steps for G Suite / Google Apps, Gmail:ġ. Use your browser to navigate to your inbox.Ģ. If you don’t have Categories enabled, click the Settings gear at the top right, and then Inbox. Under the More drop-down, click Mark as Read.Įnsure your categories look like this, and click Save Changes, if applicable.ĥ. Alternatively, click the Archive button just to the right of the checkbox you clicked in Step 4. (This step is up to you - some like the look of a clean, archived inbox, while others just don’t want to see unreads.)Ħ. Repeat Steps 3-5 using this search string: is:unread category:updates Repeat Steps 3-5 using this search string: is:unread category:socialħ. Note: Deselect any emails you actually want to read. In my case, I’d already filtered through the last 60 days of emails using the first step, so I knew that any remaining social media notifications, bulk updates and promotions were likely irrelevant. Here’s how I processed them with the remaining 30 minutes in that one-hour window: This is where the magic of IMAP happened for me - those hundreds of unreads went back down to a manageable 20-30. Marked any irrelevant unread emails as Read.
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