Clean up your Gmail inbox by handing over your own rules
Every inbox has an owner's logic. Newsletters you skim on the weekend, receipts that belong in the archive, notifications you delete on sight, and the two dozen threads that actually matter. Gmail's filters can hold a fraction of that logic. The rest lives in your head, which is why the cleanup keeps waiting for you.
Clean up your Gmail inbox is a ready-made automation for the Automate Chrome extension. Install it, point it at your own page, and it does the work in your own browser, signed in as you, inside limits you set.
What this automation does
You write your inbox rules in the automation's rulebook, in plain words.
It opens Gmail in its own tab, in the session you are already signed into.
It works the inbox the way you would: reading what each thread is, then archiving or clearing it strictly by your rules.
Anything your rules do not clearly cover, it leaves alone.
It writes a plain-words log of every pass, so you can see what went where and tighten a rule when you want.
This ready-made automation takes your logic as you would say it out loud. It opens your Gmail in your own browser, signed in as you, and works through the inbox by your written rules: archive these, clear those, leave everything else alone. Run it once to dig out, or on a schedule to stay dug out.
Make it yours
It arrives paused, so nothing runs until you have set it up. Three things to check before the first run:
Write your rules: the starter rulebook in this automation shows the shape. Replace it with your own logic.
Choose the rhythm: run it once when things pile up, or on a repeating schedule.
Start careful: it arrives set to stop before anything is removed, so you approve the first passes until you trust your own rules.
Then run a rehearsal: a dry run with no real actions, so you watch what it would do before you arm it.
The honest limits
It runs in your browser. If the browser is closed, nothing runs. It works through the site's own pages, pressing the same buttons you would, so whatever the site lets you do by hand is the boundary of what it can do for you. The step where it works out what to do next uses your LetBe.Ai account, and a free account is all you need to start.
Questions people ask
Can it delete something important?
It follows your written rules and leaves alone anything they do not clearly cover. It also arrives set to stop at the last step, so at first nothing is cleared without your click. Loosen that only when your rules have earned it.
Does it read my email somewhere else?
It works inside your own browser, in your own session. Deciding the next step uses your LetBe.Ai account and sends only the page it is looking at.
Why not just use Gmail filters?
Filters match senders and words. Your rules can say what you actually mean, like clear the notifications I never open, keep anything that looks like a bill, and it reads each thread to apply them.
Does it need my Google password?
No. It works inside the session you are already signed into. Your password never leaves your browser.
Get this automation
Automate is already in this browser. One click adds this task to it.
This is a ready-made task for Automate, a free Chrome extension that does repetitive browser work for you. Getting it takes two steps:
- Add the free extension to Chrome. It installs like any other extension, from Google's official store.
Add Automate to Chrome - Come back to this page. A one-click button will appear right here and add this task for you.
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