Ask HN: When did you lose control of your inbox?
Was it a certain year, a certain age, a certain job, a change in life situation?
Or rather I took back control. I have now 2 email addresses - one for humans, one for the rest.
And I systematically unsubscribe from every email I don't want to receive (gosh I miss Europe for that), I delete everything that I have no reason to keep, and I archive anything that needs to be kept.
It demands a lot of effort at the beginning. But now my inbox is useful again.
The other way is when you create an account somewhere, first thing you have to do is to go in their privacy and / or notifications settings. Stop it at the source.
Whe had a shared email account for the whole support group.
We received about 100-150 emails daily from people and automates processes...
... And nobody was allowed to archive or move mails to folders.
Almost 20 years later I simply don't trust email for important stuff. If I have to email something important I want to talk with the person, too.
(No they didn't; it's an imaginary future doomsday scenario).