How to filter out old email from inbox

Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in mypersonal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with,and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email.

Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that Inever want to read. But there’s another category of email which is stuffI often want to read when it’s fresh, but never want to read after it’s fresh.For example, calendar reminders, some mailing lists, some news le...