Objective
Reduce personal Gmail unread volume without burying protected mail, while preserving current-week human, receipt, medical, USPS, tennis, and reply-needed threads.
What Changed
- Reviewed the live Gmail label taxonomy and prior protected-lane rules before making any mailbox changes.
- Separated protected unread from machine-mail and promo families so bulk actions would not touch starred, medical, USPS, tennis, or direct-human lanes.
- Labeled 19 promo/newsletter messages as
05. Marketing, archived them, and marked them read.
- Labeled 26 low-risk workflow and machine-alert messages as
04. FYI, added Archived by Notion Agent, archived them, and removed UNREAD.
- Added
Saved receipts or Subscriptions labels to the remaining current-week commerce and renewal items that still need visibility.
- Final result:
INBOX unread dropped from 114 to 69 and total UNREAD dropped from 192 to 148.
Commands And Live Systems Touched
- Gmail connector read/write actions over the live personal Gmail mailbox.
- Local automation memory update at
/Users/samaguiar/.codex/automations/gmail-daily-triage/memory.md.
Key Findings
- The largest safely-cleared families were GitHub notifications, Semrush exports and site audits, Local Services by Google, Vercel notifications, Lands' End Business, Sene, Stocktwits, Equibase, and Kentucky Nurses Association messages.
- Protected unread preserved on purpose included USPS Informed Delivery, a CaringBridge update, a Quest Diagnostics notice, starred mail, tennis scheduling items, direct human outreach, and current receipts and shipping confirmations.
- Current-week items still needing attention included Penji, Kent W. on Upwork, xSuit shipping and delivery, Ro shipment, Lowe's delivery confirmation, CCleaner renewal, Unicorn Auctions, NotFair trial-ended notice, Edfinancial, USPS digests, and tennis scheduling mail.
Rollback State
- Mailbox writes were limited to label changes, archive actions, and read-state updates.
- There is no one-click automated rollback, but the preserved automation memory and Gmail labels show the exact routing applied during this pass.
- No code or workspace files were modified beyond the local automation memory note.