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Got to zero inbox on my personal email address(es) for the first time in a decade or so. This was mostly (1) declaring bankrupt on anything older than 6 months, (2) unsubscribing/filtering spammy stuff, and (3) setting up a transient tag for emails I want to *briefly* see lethain.com/filter-old-g...

Maybe the biggest non-documented learning is that you _can_ do things like "in:inbox before:2025/1/1" and then "select all" and "archive" in GMail, but as best I can tell from repeated attempts it only seems to actually work if you leave the window open. even though the messaging doesn't imply that

(Or I've created a complex, provably false, mythology to explain why it seemed to only work that one time and not the other five times I tried it.)

I'm 98% sure you have to keep it open. I run into the same issue anytime I hit Archive All on the "Promotions" tab and close it soon after. And oddly, sometimes everything BUT the first 50 items are archived.