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How do you organise your mailbox with labels and folders? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago by Panda@lemmy.today to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world

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How do you use your labels, folders and filters to organise your ProtonMail inbox/archive?

I decided to get Proton Unlimited yesterday and I've been trying to organise my emails, but I feel like I have the tendency to accidentally use folders and labels for the same thing so I end up with similarly named labels and folders (oops!), so I'm curious to see how people here organise their mailbox.

I was thinking one folder per alias/account/website, but when I try to add filters I'm reaching that filter limit where I have to wait 24 hours. I tried the sieve filters but, although I'm a decent programmer, it doesn't feel super intuitive.

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[–] Steve@communick.news 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't use folders, just labels. This is what I have. All just in the Archive. Most are generic a few are specific to me.

[–] Panda@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing! I like your labels! Yesterday I realised that if you archive your emails they are removed from the folders they were originally organised into, and here I was making folders for literally everything. Time to reorganise and utilise labels more. :)

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

I have a folder for each additional email identity that I created and a filter to sort incoming emails into these folders and then a few labels like "Invoices", "Vet" or "Medical" that get applied automatically.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

I've tried this before but it just leads to me wasting my time with organisation I never need. If I need to take action on it, it stays unread or gets starred; if I need it for reference it stays in the inbox; if I might need it one day in the future it goes to the archive, else it gets deleted. The search seems fine for finding specific emails.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I leave everything that needs action in the Inbox. All other mail I move to Archive.

For the rest I use Search.

[–] Panda@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really need to archive my emails more often to prevent my inbox from becoming a cluttered mess. Do you use labels?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

No. The content of the e-mail is most of times enough to be found in search.