I have a zapier script setup to text me likely important messages and it helps but isn't perfect and things fall through. Special filters for to surface organizational email addresses help but the 1-2 times a week I receive an important non-organization message fall through that crack and look like the ever-improving auto generated spam content.
I declared "email bankruptcy" last week for > 1500 "new" messages, scouring them as best I could for things that needed a response, but these were very few. Most messages were nonsense. Organization-wise messages that can mostly be ignored and 80% spam (my workplace uses Google's ecosystem for mail etc so spam should be filtered well!)
After "bankruptcy" I buckled down and determined to deal with each batch of mail first thing and last think each day, ubsubscribing one by one to slowly stop the problem, but the shear volume of marketing crap & process of unsubscribing etc took so long that after two days of spending 45+ minutes dealing with it I had to move on to pressing projects. On top of that it seemed like some unsubscribes immediately generated a near identical spam message for something similar, albeit a different domain, as if the unsubscribe system is just feeding those unsubscribe emails to the next marketing link in the chain in a never ending chain of spam!
How are people managing this? Is there a tool, anything, any idea people use to overcome the shear avalanche of crap without missing the important things? My boss loves me, knows I work hard and am busy, but is sometimes having to remind me to respond to something I completely missed among all this crap. I need a solutiont!
Thank you!
So here I am a week later with 400+ messages in my inbox again!
I declared "email bankruptcy" last week for > 1500 "new" messages, scouring them as best I could for things that needed a response, but these were very few. Most messages were nonsense. Organization-wise messages that can mostly be ignored and 80% spam (my workplace uses Google's ecosystem for mail etc so spam should be filtered well!)
After "bankruptcy" I buckled down and determined to deal with each batch of mail first thing and last think each day, ubsubscribing one by one to slowly stop the problem, but the shear volume of marketing crap & process of unsubscribing etc took so long that after two days of spending 45+ minutes dealing with it I had to move on to pressing projects. On top of that it seemed like some unsubscribes immediately generated a near identical spam message for something similar, albeit a different domain, as if the unsubscribe system is just feeding those unsubscribe emails to the next marketing link in the chain in a never ending chain of spam!
How are people managing this? Is there a tool, anything, any idea people use to overcome the shear avalanche of crap without missing the important things? My boss loves me, knows I work hard and am busy, but is sometimes having to remind me to respond to something I completely missed among all this crap. I need a solutiont!
Thank you!
So here I am a week later with 400+ messages in my inbox again!