This is severely out of date.

I’m fairly good at keeping my email organized. I have the following labels:

• Projects: For correspondence about personal projects or projects I am involved in.
  • Nanoc
  • closecontact
  • …
• Newsletters: For regular newsletters. Some of these I also receive via RSS (see also: How I organize my RSS feeds). These are emails that I can read any time.
  • Bandcamp (for new releases etc)
  • Cooperpress (Ruby Weekly etc)
  • GOG & Steam
  • …
• Discussions: For discussion mailing lists. There aren’t too many of these, though.
  • ruby-talk
• Work: For correspondence about employment and job search.
  • Shopify
  • Pitch
  • …
  • Job search
• Miscellaneous: For all other categorisation. This is mostly the “I need separate labels but they don’t fit elsewhere” category.
  • Banking
  • Purchases

I’ve got rules set up that move everything out of the inbox and into the correct label automatically, skipping the inbox.

Newsletters are set to be auto-deleted after 60 days.

I have a stored search called “Ephemeral” that finds everything that can be deleted. This overlaps largely with newsletters.