Tip: Use Gmail to easily manage your Gmail email subscriptions

 

Last week, I included an optional video from Jeff Su on NotebookLM. He was a Google employee, and has a website with articles on (mostly) Google products, including AI and productivity (add it to your Feedly!), and he also has an email newsletter with tips. I subscribe to his email, and here is a Gmail tip I thought sounded useful from his April 23 email.

NOTE: This was not available yet on my desktop or my Gmail app on my phone. But I will be keeping an eye out for it in the future!

Tip #3: Manage subscriptions

I mean let’s be honest, this is the only newsletter you really need so this tip teaches you how to unsubscribe from all those inferior other newsletters. 

Gmail added a Manage subscriptions section to the sidebar. It shows every active subscription sorted by who's emailing you the most (prepare to be horrified), along with how many emails they've sent in the past few weeks.

Here's where to find it:

1. Open the Gmail app on your phone
2. Tap the menu icon (top left)
3. Tap Manage subscriptions
4. Hit Unsubscribe next to any sender you're done with

Gmail handles the unsubscribe request for you, so no more scrolling to the bottom of emails and squinting at grey-on-grey text.

 Fair warning: this one's most reliably found on mobile right now. If you don't see it on desktop yet, that's normal (classic Google rollout ). Check your phone first.