This Google Apps Script moves your low priority (promotional, social, political, etc.) emails in Gmail to a custom label, and sends you a synopsis of recieved emails every morning for review.
Basically, this is unroll.me without any 3rd party access or creepy data brokering.
- Create a new spreadsheet in Google Sheets. Name it whatever you'd like.
- This spreadsheet will be used to keep track of low priority email addresses.
- Create a new Gmail label. Mine is called
zbulk, but you are more than welcome to be creative.
- Should you decide on a different label, replace every instance of
zbulkin thenoneroll.gsfile to whatever name you have choosen.
- Create a new Google Apps Script project.
- Copy code from
noneroll.gsto the project'sCode.gsfile. - Replace
sheetIDwith the ID of the sheet (everything afterspreadsheets/d/and before/edit#in the sheet's URL) that you created in Step 1.
- Create project triggers. I am currently using the following settings:
archevery 15 mins.- Archives and labels email.
addEmailbetween midnight and 1am.- Adds labeled email addresses to spreadsheet.
nonerollbetween 5 and 6am.- Sends digest of emails from past 24 hours.
- Tag any emails that you wish to add to your low priority email digest with
zbulk(or your custom label). - Column A of your spreadhsheet will be populated with the email addresses of mail you consider low priority.
- It is a good idea to occasionally open your spreadsheet and select "Data > Remove duplicates" from the menu to prevent email addresses from appearing multiple times in your spreadsheet.
- Pull requests to fix this (see: automagically deduping email addresses) are welcome.
- If you want to stop mail from being flagged as low priority, remove the corresponding email address(es) from your spreadsheet and (to be safe) remove the label from any messages in
zbulk(or your custom label). - Low priority emails will be archived, labeled, and marked as read every 15 minutes.
Forked from a GitHub project by Niraj D. Thanks for making this possible! 🙌🏻