{"id":8354,"date":"2010-02-10T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:56:29","slug":"managing-inbox-overload-with-google-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/02\/10\/managing-inbox-overload-with-google-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Inbox Overload with Google Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3513,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/buzz&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3514,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/lifehacker.com\\\/5468067\\\/hideremove-google-buzz-updates-from-your-gmail-inbox&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190110181557\\\/https:\\\/\\\/lifehacker.com\\\/5468067\\\/hideremove-google-buzz-updates-from-your-gmail-inbox&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/lifehacker.com\\\/5468067\\\/hideremove-google-buzz-updates-from-your-gmail-inbox&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>My Google account just got set up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\" title=\"Google Buzz\">Google Buzz<\/a>, the new social networking addition to Google&#8217;s stable. One of the first things I noticed was that this could be a recipe for inbox overload, as every new reply to something I&#8217;ve posted or replied to ends up as a new message in my inbox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari003-500x117.png\" alt=\"Inbox Overload\" title=\"Inbox Overload\" width=\"500\" height=\"117\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simple solution: set up a filter. Here&#8217;s the settings I used&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Create a filter&#8221; option just to the right of the search box and related buttons towards the top of the screen.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari005.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari005-500x45.png\" alt=\"Create a Filter\" title=\"Create a Filter\" width=\"500\" height=\"45\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><del>Enter &#8220;Buzz&#8221; in the &#8220;Subject&#8221; field of the filter options box, then run a test search. Unfortunately, this <em>will<\/em> catch any message that uses the word &#8220;buzz&#8221; in the subject line, and from my testing, neither adding a colon (&#8220;Buzz:&#8221;) or surrounding the word with quotation marks makes a difference. I can&#8217;t currently find a way to force the filter to grab only messages that <em>begin<\/em> with the word &#8220;Buzz&#8221; so caveat emptor. If your test search looks acceptable, click &#8220;Next Step&#8221;.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>As has been pointed out to me by a few people, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5468067\/hideremove-google-buzz-updates-from-your-gmail-inbox\" title=\"LifeHacker: Hide\/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox\">posted here<\/a>: Enter &#8220;label:buzz&#8221; in the &#8220;Has the words:&#8221; field of the options box. Google will pop up a warning, but go ahead and ignore it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari006.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari006-500x141.png\" alt=\"Filter Options Screen One\" title=\"Filter Options Screen One\" width=\"500\" height=\"141\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the next screen, activate &#8220;Skip the Inbox (Archive it)&#8221; and &#8220;Apply the label:&#8221;, then create a new label titled &#8220;Buzzes&#8221; (or whatever you want, but you can&#8217;t use &#8220;Buzz&#8221;). If you want, click the checkbox to apply the filter retroactively to the messages caught by the filter&#8217;s test run. Then click &#8220;Create Filter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari007.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Safari007-500x185.png\" alt=\"Filter Options Screen Two\" title=\"Filter Options Screen Two\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>You&#8217;re done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From now on, rather than getting flooded with inbox messages every time a new Buzz response pops up, you&#8217;ll have a little &#8216;Buzzes&#8217; filter sitting to the left of your screen. If it&#8217;s bold, you&#8217;ve got a response waiting for you. And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From now on, rather than getting flooded with inbox messages every time a new Buzz response pops up, you&#8217;ll have a little &#8216;Buzzes&#8217; filter sitting to the left of your screen. If it&#8217;s bold, you&#8217;ve got a response waiting for you. And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[132,58,65],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}