Finally something I really need to destroy emails – Gmail VACUUM

I just received this notice from shortmail. Having 12,000 UNREAD emails in my inbox I am desperately looking for how to solve the almost impossible problem of how to deal with these emails. I read a book a couple of years ago called “The Tyranny of Email” and I agree. It is a tyranny. A simple calculation shows that just reading through 12,000 emails even for a few seconds to get rid of the rubbish will take years if I actually do real work and not 24 hour a day emailing. I find that maybe 10% of emails need some related action which could take hours to days to finish. So it is not as simple as just going through, read, and delete. Although I am soon getting to the stage of really following others in “email bankruptcy”.

Anyway I will use this new tool. I hope it can “suck away” the useful email and leave the rest for deleting.

You have been granted access to a new feature: Gmail Vacuum.

Many of you have told us that you would love to view and respond to your Gmails through the simpler, more streamlined Shortmail interface. So we went to work, and now you can! We call it Gmail Vacuum and it pulls in all your Shortmail-compliant Gmails (500 characters or less) into your Shortmail inbox!

To try Gmail Vacuum, sign in at Shortmail.com and go to Settings (the gear icon) > Advanced > Add a Google Account!