Inbox sorter

You need this if…

• You have 214 unread emails and maybe six of them matter.
• You skip the same newsletter every morning and still don’t unsubscribe.
• An important email got buried under receipts and you found it three days late.

01What it reads

• Email
• Contacts

02What you get

Each morning, your mail sorted into reply, read later, and ignore, with the reply pile on top.

03What stays with you

It sorts and labels. It never deletes, unsubscribes, or answers anything on its own.

04How you ask

“What actually needs me?”

Try it today.

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, then add your own material where it says so. Take out card numbers, passwords and anything private about other people first.

Below is a list of emails from my inbox, with the sender, subject, and first line of each.

[paste here]

Sort them into three groups. Reply: things that need an answer or a decision from me. Read: things worth reading but not answering. Ignore: newsletters, receipts, notifications, and anything that can wait forever. Put the Reply group first, most urgent at the top, with one line on why each needs me. If you're unsure where something goes, put it in Reply and say why. Then tell me which senders I should probably filter or unsubscribe from.

When it runs on its own.

Runs every morning before you open your mail and labels your inbox so the reply pile is the first thing you see.

That’s what Second Nature is: this job and 9 to 11 more like it, set up on your own computer around how you work, with me.