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# The Archiver

> Clears the emails you never open a day or three after they land, unless you touch them first

**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.

## 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.

## Settings

Under Your rules, write up to ten rules. There are none to begin with; nothing is queued until you write one.

| Field | What it does | Options |
| - | - | - |
| **Which emails** | The kind of mail, in your own words, for example *newsletters and vendor marketing I never read* or *shipping and tracking notifications once the order is on its way* | Free text |
| **What to do** | What happens when the wait is up | Archive, Move to Trash, Mark unread |
| **How long you get** | How long you have to touch the email before it acts | After 24 hours, After 2 days, After 3 days |

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.

## 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**.

<Warning>
  The Archiver is one of two tactics that change your mailbox without asking first (the other is
  [The Organizer](/home/tactics/organizer)). It only ever acts on mail matching a rule you wrote, after the wait you
  chose, and Up next shows you everything before it happens.
</Warning>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Email Digest" icon="newspaper" href="/home/tactics/email-digest">
    Read a summary of the newsletters before The Archiver clears them
  </Card>

  <Card title="The Organizer" icon="folder" href="/home/tactics/organizer">
    File instead of clear
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


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