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Go through each in turn and decide how you want to treat it.įirst, do you really want it? If not, turn it off at the source. Look through your emails to find the large categories, which may well be social updates, forum comments, newsletters and so on. Next, in the Categories section, untick all Google’s categories: primary, social, promotions, updates, and forums. (You can always turn it on later.) To do that, go to Settings, click Inbox, and set “Inbox type” to default. Start by turning off Google’s “inbox for dummies” feature. And you can’t fix people.”Įither way, you can certainly improve your Gmail inbox management, and move the clutter out of the way. As Mann told Burkemann: “Eventually, I realised something. Instead, I recommend Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian story, Why time management is ruining our lives. Both work well for many people, but not for me. Mann was a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and created the 43Folders system. Merlin Mann popularised the idea of Inbox Zero in a Google TechTalk in July 2007. Or have you, like me, run out of storage space? If so, you’ll have to keep deleting emails in order to keep using Gmail. Do you want to declare “ email bankruptcy” and clear out everything received after a certain date? If so, you could turn over a new leaf on New Year’s Day. Choose Don't forward, if you have enabled email forwarding for you to receive incoming emails to your Inbox Folder.Otherwise, you don’t say why you want to trim your inbox. If you select Exclusive you will only received emails in your inbox from senders in your "Safe Senders" list.Ĥ. If the Exclusive level was set, messages from senders not on your Contacts or Safe senders lists will have been sent to the Junk e-mail folder. Under Choose a junk e-mail filter, choose the level of protection that you want, and then click "Save". Under Junk email, click "Filters and reporting".Ĥ. Note: Not all international characters are supported as filters.ģ. Perform one of the actions as per your requirement:Ĭlick "Edit" next to the rule that you want to edit.Ĭhoose the rule that you want to delete by ticking the check box and click "Delete". Under Mail, click "Inbox and sweep rules".Ĥ.

In the text box, type in the email address or domain you’d like to always receive email from, and then click "Add to list >".ģ. Under Junk email, click "Safe senders".ĥ. In the Blocked senders list, select the name or domain (the part of an e-mail address that follows the sign, such as ) that you now want to receive mail from, and then click ">".Īdd the email address to your Safe mailing listsģ. Under Junk email, Click "Blocked senders".ĥ. In your Inbox, click the cog icon beside your Profile name.ģ. If you see any messages that should have been delivered to the Inbox folder, click the box on the left of each message to put a check mark and then click the "Not Junk" button.ġ. Check to see if the wanted emails are in this folder.Ĥ. Click the "Junk" folder on the left pane.ģ. It is possible that your incoming emails are triggered by Junk mail filters. Following the steps below should help you resolve the issue.ġ.