I’ve recently been working to minimize my email clutter, my dependance on certain email providers, and to consolidate services under certain accounts.
I’m down to the following uses:
Apple ID, mydomain-billing/subscriptions, mydomain-official/legal, anon, friends/family, business domain.
I also have a handful of aliases and an account just for newsletters and my RSS app.
I’m curious if others have several email addresses for similar uses or if you use your email client to categorize incoming messages for you. For people who only have one email address, how do you manage this?
Mostly six: family and friends, romantic relationships, professional, online identity, signing to Google services*, signing to other services.
I say “mostly” because I went through dozens of addresses, already abandoned. And the “signing to other services” e-mail has disposable addresses, that I use fairly often.
*I use this as a way to limit what Alphabet knows about me, given that it’s the biggest data vulture that I can’t get rid of.