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about the #blog post on #email (by a guy with a very cool first name)
Adventures in Linux and KDE
How I manage my KDE email
Every once in a while people ask me about my email routine, so I thought I’d write about it here. Everything I do starts with the philosophy ...
And thought I might share my own email strategy. Maybe someone here on Nostr might find it handy, otherwise rambling on about something I've put thought into is always fun.
Filters are super handy. I do like separating things into folders and have four: Financial for statements/credit card statements etc, promotional for any promotional emails/newsletters, updates for things like shipping notifications or generic updates like somebody starred something on Github, and newsletters for newsletters.
I can go to 'All Mail' to see everything, but only the rarer important tings (or things that I need to add to my filters) wind up in my inbox.
I've also got my own domain which is super handy for switching providers or something and really saved me when my at the time provider went down for a few days. It's ~$10 a year and you can usually use it with any provider (often for free/no extra cost), or just set your domain registrar to forward anything sent to your domain to your existing email. Many registrars will offer free email forwarding.
Things like simple login are also pretty handy for forcibly stopping incoming mail, and things like Kill The Newsletter are super handy to convert newsletters to an RSS feed to better keep my inbox clean.
My work email is completely separate (not even accessed from my personal devices), but when I was in college I did forward all my emails in my college email to my personal email. I was able to keep my college life mentally separated by just making sure any mail from college went to the 'College' folder or it's subfolders. All my other older emails also get forwarded to my main email address.
Most of my emails do get deleted, though I do have a very long standing archive. I mean email is just a bunch of text, so by deleting ~95% of my emails are archiving the last 5% forever it's really not all that large compared to say archiving my photos.
Last, unsubscribe from anything you don't need. It can be a lifesaver to do so, and anything that (illegally might I add) doesn't seem to let you unsubscribe can be sent strait to spam.
