at what point do the emails and gmail labels from jobs and ... • Aaron Parecki

at what point do the emails and gmail labels from jobs and projects 10+ years ago stop being relevant and should I delete them?

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 7:41pm -07:00 #gmail #email

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- Justin Richer twitter.com/justin__richer
  
  It's one of the reasons I like folders instead of labels. Old folders can be eventually moved to the "Archive" folder to get them out of the way, once I stop using them.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 3:40pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  That's a good idea, I'm going to give that a try
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:11pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Sam Greenwood twitter.com/SamGreenwoodTNS
  
  Is it a Google Workspace account? Because if it is there's an email migration tool built in.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:08pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Torstein K. Johansen twitter.com/torsteinkrause
  
  What a good question! I don't know if I *need* anything as old as 10 years, but I nevertheless keep backups of all old accounts. My preferred tool these days is "offlineimap" which makes it easy to keep email on file.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 6:37am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  At this point my main use of labels is the auto labeling rules I set up so that my inbox is color coded based on the project
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 4:15am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Mark Drummond twitter.com/IAMAtWork
  
  This probably isn't for everyone but I purge everything older than 7 years, and I've stopped using labels altogether. It's either in my inbox, or archived and I search for it. Actually I do still have one label, for @idpro_org.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 3:36am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- amit micro.blog/amit
  
  @aaronpk right now is the right time 😁
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 3:34am +00:00
- Mitch mastodon.xyz/@mitchkiah
  
  @aaronpk when the anxiety of having them outweighs the anxiety of deleting them
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:59am +00:00
- D. Schmudde mastodon.social/@schmudde
  
  @aaronpk I have carefully downloaded folders and removed them from my SMTP server at this age. Turns out I have never searched such backups. Not even once. So deletion sounds like the way to go.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:58am +00:00
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  That's something I hadn't considered... like forwarding them all? Or is there some way to move them between accounts that I don't know.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:47am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Sam Greenwood twitter.com/SamGreenwoodTNS
  
  Hypothetically, if you wanted to keep them but didn’t want them cluttering your primary Gmail you could dump them into a new Gmail account.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:46am +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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