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. Otherwise, you don’t say why you want to trim your inbox.
This is why you should take a backup before embarking on an email delete-fest, but I’ll discuss that later.
Computers are stupid and do what you tell them to do, which may not be what you intended. The tricky bit is deleting the emails you don’t want while keeping the ones you do.
You may be surprised at how easy it is to delete thousands of Gmail messages with just a couple of clicks. Yes, I know I should have archived important, useful emails. Is there an easy way of doing mass deletes in Gmail? I’ve rather let the inbox grow, and I would like to trim it.
