Subscribed to 47 Newsletters. Read Maybe 3. Inbox Was a Graveyard. 🫢
Started subscribing to newsletters. Productivity tips. Parenting advice. Recipe roundups. Industry news. Local events. Good intentions. Terrible execution. THE NEWSLETTER GRAVEYARD 47 active subscriptions. Average 4 emails per week each. That's 188 emails weekly I was ignoring. "I'll read it later." Later never came. Just guilt scrolling past unread stacks. Occasionally something important buried in there. School fundraiser deadline. Recipe I actually wanted. Missed both because they drowned in the pile. Tried unsubscribing. Got through 12. Gave up. Life happened. THE CURATOR I BUILT All newsletters route to a separate folder. Workflow processes them daily. Extracts the actual content. Summarizes key points. Categorizes by topic. Daily digest: One email with summaries from everything. Organized by category. Links to full versions if I want more. Flags action items. Deadlines. Events. Things that need response. The rest? Summarized and archived. There if I need it. Not cluttering my inbox. THE INBOX SANITY Before: 188 weekly emails ignored, important things missed, constant guilt. After: One daily digest, action items highlighted, actually read the summaries. Discovered I only care about 8 of the 47 newsletters. Unsubscribed from the rest guilt-free because I could see I never clicked through to full articles. Those 8? I actually read now because they're not buried. Found out about a community event I would have missed. Was buried in a newsletter I hadn't opened in 3 weeks. The summarization isn't perfect on heavily formatted newsletters. Image-heavy ones lose context. But captures text-based content well. Inbox feels manageable again. I really want to share this json to everyone in this group What newsletters are you subscribed to that you never actually read?