Hi, I’m Hunter Perrin. I created an email service called Port87.
I have ADHD, and keeping my email organized has always been a struggle. Three years ago, I started using a new organization strategy for my email where I’d add plus tags and use filters to move them into labels, “hperrin+whatever@gmail”. This worked for a few months until I got lazy and stopped creating the filters. Then my inbox slowly became just as messy as before.
So I spent the last two years writing my own email service that does it automatically. You can’t even use your address without a label. Everything is organized based on the address you give out, so I have an address for everything.
Anyway, I wanted to share this with you guys. It’s my experience of using my own email service. Obviously, I’m biased, but I still think it’s a valid take on the struggles of email organization with ADHD. If nothing else, maybe the plus tag system can help you out with your current email provider. :)
Happy you found something that works.
What works best for my personal email address is very aggressively unsubscribing from notifications and labeling spam as spam.
Now that I only rarely get emails, I can very easily keep up to date.
A 5 minute glance into my email app is enough to be up to date for the last 2-3 days. About once a week I might receive a mail that actually requires action or a response.
Work is different. But I guess I get paid at work, so I spend way more time on my work email. But I don’t like automatically filing work email, because if someone mails me, I need to take notice and perhaps respond. ADHD helps me with a positive reputation that I respond quickly when I not busy.