Ongoing Organization: Gmail Filters

labels.pngI’ve been really inter­ested in orga­niz­ing all my email mes­sages. But I don’t really want to go through every sin­gle mes­sage to do that. Today I tried to make some fil­ters in Gmail to at least get some gen­eral organization.

First I attempted to get all money related emails into one place.
To do this I looked for all the email addresses of my banks, stu­dent loans, online buying/selling, that kind of stuff. At first I was get­ting every address, but I real­ized it would be much faster to grab whole domains. So this is what I did.
from:(@cems.wamu.com OR @ebay.com OR @amazon.com OR @wellsfargo.com OR @mint.com OR @checkout.google.com OR @paypal.com OR billing@dreamhost.com)

Then I wanted to try and orga­nize emails with attach­ments by file type.

For images
Has the words:(.jpg OR .jpeg OR .gif OR .png) has:attachment

For media
Has the words:(.avi OR .mov OR .mp3 OR .m4a) has:attachment
For doc­u­ments
Has the words:(.pdf OR .doc OR .docx OR .xls OR .xlsx OR .ppt OR .pptx OR .oo3) has:attachment

For design
Has the words:(.ai OR .psd OR .indd OR .qxd) has:attachment

The one prob­lem that I’ve run into so far with this is with PDFs. About half of the pdf emails are related design. This is also a prob­lem with Fire­works PNGs.

This is by no means com­plete. It is only a quick stab at email orga­ni­za­tion. Hence “ongo­ing.” If you have any ideas on how to improve this or any fil­ters you’ve set up that work well, comment.

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