Everyday, I wake up feeling snowed in by emails, and I work at a company (Zapier), that makes every effort to reduce email congestion by favoring other forms of remote communication. Still, the emails are too many, which is why I set out to both filter the signal from the noise, and then send that signal straight to Slack.

Signal, over here. Noise, over there.

I use the following Gmail filters to delineate emails I care about from... the rest. I know that 9 out of 10 relevant emails are from GitHub, so I focus there.

First, I created two labels, GitHub, and GitHub (Mentions).

Then, I added these three filters to route all email from GitHub:

Gmail Labels