Gmail Subscriptions Management

Dedicated management of email subscriptions looks like a great enhancement to GMail. Email these days has become increasingly less used medium for human to human communications. Humans primarily use instant messaging apps today. WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger. Or simply "text" each other.

Email has become a formal notifications channel for variety of services: "here is your invoice", "your flight reservation information is...", and so on. Most of those services take advantage of knowing your email address and automatically enroll you to "updates" that are typically a plain marking spam. Making email more cluttered and less valuable / less usable.

Google has been trying to keep email alive by helping fight the spam and clutter. "Manage subscriptions" is really helpful. It is available on the mobile interface through the "hamburger" (the three horizontal bars) button in the top left corner. It is also available on the PC/web interface. The option lists all services that have you on the hook and offers instant unsubscribe option. For the email die-hards this will be a really useful option. Unveiling who has you signed in and one - click good bye. Works really well for me, as I am an Inboz Zero dinosaur. But if your inbox already has thousands of unread emails, don't bother :)