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I deleted all of my email filters


Gmail's long had a segmented/tabbed inbox and Apple added their own (to iOS) recently. I've long used manual mail rules to label and sort inbound messages into different folders.

I used rules heavily, limits aside, to add labels for context, mark low priority as read and file it into folders and — in some cases — do both. You end up either actively checking these, which creates more of a cognitive and organizational load or ignoring them which means that — without fail — you'll miss things. If you let iOS or Gmail make these choices, you're forfeiting agency to their algorithm and/or heuristics ("AI").

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