Here's my favorite email trick for cleaning up inbox clutter - automatically

Is your inbox overflowing with ads, newsletters, and social media updates? This one feature that's built into most email solutions will fix that for you.

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I've had the same email address for more than two decades. I use it for just about everything I do. That's really convenient, but it also means my inbox is inundated with advertising, newsletters, social media updates, and other ephemera. Left unchecked, that firehose of trivial correspondence can overwhelm the useful and important stuff.

The world's two largest email providers realize this is a problem. Gmail and Outlook do some automatic mail sorting with the help of algorithms. Still, their solutions are imperfect and require constant manual intervention to train the algorithms and find the important stuff that was inadvertently demoted.

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