If you set up labels (folders), and create filters to explicitly put
specific emails (like commit messages) into specific folders, then
everything seems to work much better.

90+ percent of my email doesn't end up in my inbox - it gets shuttled off
to specific mailing list folders, or specific "online advertising" folders
(for stuff I've actually signed up for, but don't necessarily want to read
all the time).

This is assuming you use the web interface for GMail, of course.

- Jon



On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>wrote:

> Your message evoked something in me, and I can't quite place it. It was
> like there was a terribly important word missing. At first I thought it was
> your name, Frank, but then I thought of all kinds of other words that start
> with F and are comprised of five letters and I don't know why.
>
> Maybe it's just in my head.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 24 July 2013 10:33, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Gmail has gone off the deep end. All of the commit messages are being
>> > automatically hidden behind a "Promotions" tab which I can't fathom
>> wanting
>> > in the first place. That's what the Spam folder is for, and commit
>> messages
>> > don't go there.
>>
>> You can restore your sanity (as I did) by removing all those rubbish tabs.
>>
>> That doesn't address all the other FNORD problems with Gmail, of course.
>>
>> frank
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Casey Ransberger
>
>
>
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