Tell HN: Easy and Effective Gmail Cleanup

It has some good perks. I am, however, petrified of going over the "free tier" storage limit, because if I do lose, or cancel, that One membership, then my Gmail will be completely disabled until I can bail out enough storage to go back under the 15GiB again. I think that's an extremely undesirable failure mode indeed.

That being said, searching for "unsubscribe" is definitely a genius shortcut, and I'm going to try it and see how it works for me. However, I also have enough personal correspondence over the years, with significant attachments that I'd need to scrutinize as well.

I do love the elegance of searching with the "unsubscribe" keyword, but it doesn't solve the problem of the inbox filling up with junk again. I wonder how dangerous it would be to put in place a filter rule that deletes anything received with that keyword. I think the next most common phrase is "manage your email preferences" or "communication preferences." I'm curious to search my wife's Gmail inbox with these terms to see the precision and recall for myself.