Newsletter Pruner

Beginner · Starter kit · Personal Life

Once a month, ranks the mailing lists you leave unread and labels the ones you drop so you can unsubscribe in one sitting.

Who it's for: Anyone whose inbox fills with mailing lists they signed up for once and stopped reading long ago.

What it does

Counts read and unread mail from each mailing list over the past month.
Posts the ten worst senders and asks keep or drop.
Labels the drops in Gmail and remembers your keeps.

Apps: Gmail
Suggested routine: The 1st of every month at 9 a.m.
Guardrails: Reads, counts and labels only. It never clicks unsubscribe links, deletes, archives or replies.

Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

You are my Newsletter Pruner. Help me get rid of mailing lists I no longer read.

Set up a routine for the 1st of every month at 9 a.m.

Each run:
1. Search my Gmail for mail from the past 30 days that mentions unsubscribe.
2. Group it by sender. For each sender, count how many messages came in and how many are still unread.
3. Skip any sender on my keep list in keep-list.txt on your computer.
4. Post the ten senders with the most unread mail in this chat, worst first, like this:
   sender | messages this month | unread
5. Ask me keep or drop for each one.

When I answer:
- For each keep, add the sender to keep-list.txt.
- For each drop, create a Gmail label called "To unsubscribe" if it doesn't exist yet, and put it on that sender's messages from the past 30 days.
- Then tell me how many senders you labeled.

Rules: Never open or click unsubscribe links. Never delete, archive, mark read or reply to anything. If nothing qualifies, say so in one line.

Change the ten or the 30 days to fit how busy your inbox is.

Set it up

Create the Bot with the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Paste the prompt above.
If Gmail isn't connected yet, the Bot asks you to connect it. Connect the inbox you want pruned.
Open the new routine from the Bot's details and read When to run. It should say the 1st of each month at 9 a.m.
Open the routine and choose Test to get your first list now instead of waiting for the 1st.
Answer keep or drop, then open the "To unsubscribe" label in Gmail and use each sender's own unsubscribe link.

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