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Comment by throeurir | Hacker News Reader

> I unsubscribe to everything I do not absolutely need

I get like 500 daily messages between multiple email accounts, and this just does not scale. Some messages are needed once year, monthly, some weekly, some are fed into LLM and automation. It is very convenient to have everything organized into folders.

I really have no time, to look for some esoteric details, in some obscure report, on website that stopped working 5 years ago! I just use full text search over my local email archive!

It also keeps paper trail. If GitHub goes down, or I get fired, I still have most comments and decisions.

Without email I would start reinventing alternatives like RSS.

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This. I receive several hundred non-junk emails every day. I don't need to read all of them at the time, but I do need to receive them. Many of them lend themselves to some form of segmentation.

No idea how I'd realistically manage it without rules/folders/etc. Even when I try "one inbox, just use search" that inevitably results in saved searches, which is, practically speaking, the same as rules/folders/etc.

Honestly curious what kind of email falls into this? A regular status report of some sort, that is never read but only consulted when needed? Or are these emails that are needed for legal or business cover my ass type of arguments?

How many emails do you think you could have unsubscribed from while typing your reply? You're going to check your email daily for years to come. Why not cull a few every now and then?

> It also keeps paper trail. If GitHub goes down, or I get fired, I still have most comments and decisions.

You obviously keep/archive the important things...

I actually have to make money. Deleting everything is a bit nihilistic.

And I am not going to unsubscribe from daily status reports on my servers. Those are not "absolutely needed", but it is better to have them locally in my email. Landing all incoming emails into inbox just does not scale!

I was getting at culling surplus/extraneous things you had subscribed to, but if all 500 emails are needed, you do you (and make that money with a heavy cognitive load!)

But it is not heavy cognitive load. Thanks to filters and automation...

I get like 20 emails daily that get through filters, land in my inbox and need my urgent attention. I can not imagine being directly exposed to unfiltered stream of junk, and trying to fish out emails from my boss.

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