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Welcome to the community of so-called Digital Minimalists! We're community of people who seek for silence in such a noisy world and balance between real and digital worlds. Rules of this community include:

  1. Be honest with yourself and others. Seriously, if you're not honest with yourself and pretend to be someone else, you're not going anywhere. The first step to progression is acceptance, isn't it?
  2. Be polite to others and respects each others opinions. No matter what your thoughts about privacy, Big Tech, politics, nature and etc are, let's keep all discussions family-friendly and not overwhelm ourselves.
  3. Keep it theme-oriented. This community is not made to discuss politics, privacy-issues and climate change. It's about balance and harmony. We could discuss those topics if they are related to Digital Minimalism, but not if they're purely self-oriented. Thank you :)

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How To Apply Minimalism To Your Email Inbox? (primonatura.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My stepwise plan:

  1. Gather all the email accounts I have.
  2. Long term: try to track where each email is used in critical services for communication purposes (banks, financial apps, government services)
  3. Short term: go through your email dumps and create filters for common spammers. Unsubscribe if possible.
  4. Create filters by common marketing patterns. Examples: too much punctuation, too many emojis, too many images, too many links, some marketing keywords like "hurry", "offer", "saving"
  5. Create rules for categorizing the emails. Like Login Security/Account info, Statements, Bills/Receipts, promotions (that come from a important site), etc.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What I do:

  • Rarely give out my email (I use aliases everywhere)
  • Don't attempt to sort incoming email (it's a fool's errand)
  • Email search is my friend

The result is a cluttered inbox, sure, and that's not "minimal". But it does minimize the impact on my psychology. I don't need another chore, and email sorting is an infinite chore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Doing triaging to different folders isn’t foolish since it becomes easier to clear out entire folders. Going thru & deleting things isn’t odd either since storage isn’t free.