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Old 11-02-2011, 11:17 AM   #4
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Gmail is very intentionally designed on a paradigm of fast and easy searching instead of sorting.

A couple tricks I use to ease cleaning trash or unread repetitive emails:

1. If you hover over the sender name on and click "Recent Conversations" it will automatically filter you down to just emails to/from that person. You can then select all (even if more than displays on one page) and delete.

2. I have a filter set up to apply an "Unwanted" label to emails as they come in. Any time I notice that I am getting regular email from someone that I never actually read I just ad them to the filter. I can then select that label, select all, and delete.

Back when Facebook was still sending a billion emails to me a day, it only took me about 8 seconds to select them all and delete them when the mood struck.
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