The Archiver

The Archiver clears the emails you never open. Newsletters, notifications and noise leave your inbox a day or three after they land, unless you touch them first. You write the rules in plain words; it does the tidying and logs every action with one-click undo. Find it under Tactics → The Archiver.

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When it runs

Two steps. When an email arrives, The Archiver judges it against your rules and, if one matches, queues it with a countdown. Every 15 minutes it acts on whatever countdown has run out. It re-reads your settings at that moment, so turning the tactic off, removing a rule or lengthening a wait changes what happens to mail already queued. If it cannot tell whether you touched an email, it leaves it alone rather than guess. Your inbox must be connected.

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Settings

Under Your rules, write up to ten rules. There are none to begin with; nothing is queued until you write one. If you reply, forward, flag, move, label or start a reply to an email before the time is up, it stays exactly where it is.

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What you get

Three tabs:

• Up next lists every email waiting on a countdown, with the rule it matched, the plan (for example Archive in 2 days) and why. Keep settles one email without touching the rule.
• Activity lists what happened: Archived, Moved to Trash, Marked unread, Put back, or the reason it left an email alone, such as Kept, you replied or Kept, you flagged it. Put back returns any email.
• Settings & Info.

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Next steps