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Clean thousands of emails by texting your bot short commands
Your inboxes are buried, and cleaning them in the Gmail app takes hours.
What hurt
Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) connected all his Gmail accounts and cleaned 2,000+ emails in a day by texting his bot plain instructions, including unsubscribing so less junk arrives tomorrow. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Connect each Gmail account, then manage by message: mark these as read, unsubscribe from these lists, move these to trash, or reply. Unsubscribing is the part that keeps paying off.
Bots
Inbox bot
Marks, unsubscribes, trashes, or replies on your instruction.
Plugins
Gmail
Optional
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
The commands he used (author-quoted)
Quoted from @Teslaconomics — as published. Do not invent a second system prompt.
“Mark these as read,” “Unsubscribe me from these mailing lists,” “Move these to trash,” or respond with whatever.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/Teslaconomics/status/2107681345178923367 (credit @Teslaconomics).
- 2Connect every Gmail account you want cleaned.
- 3Ask the bot to group what's piling up (newsletters, notifications, promos) and show you counts.
- 4Text short commands per group: mark read, unsubscribe, move to trash.
- 5Approve each batch before it trashes or replies, and repeat weekly.
Approval fence
Have it show you each batch before trashing or replying, and work in small batches (see gmail-small-batch-cleanup) so nothing important goes out or disappears.
What to tweak
Unsubscribe while you clean, so tomorrow's inbox is smaller too.
Source
Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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