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Unsubscribe from the newsletters you never read with Cowork

Ben Patterson at PCWorld was drowning in newsletters and let Claude Cowork tidy his Gmail. His project labels newsletters that can be archived. He first asked for a list without anything being done, then went through them one by one as multiple choice. The agent used the Claude extension for Chrome and wrote a small script that clicked the unsubscribe links. He unsubscribed from 21 newsletters in five minutes. Any that reappear can be marked as spam.

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What was done

Ben Patterson at PCWorld was drowning in newsletters and let Claude Cowork tidy his Gmail. His project labels newsletters that can be archived. He first asked for a list without anything being done, then went through them one by one as multiple choice. The agent used the Claude extension for Chrome and wrote a small script that clicked the unsubscribe links. He unsubscribed from 21 newsletters in five minutes. Any that reappear can be marked as spam.

How to do it

  1. Paste the prompt into the tool, and replace the text in brackets with your own.
  2. Read the answer through. Do not send, delete or publish anything until you have seen it yourself.
  3. Check the original before you trust a figure, a name or a date.

Try it with Claude Cowork

Find the newsletters in [email account] that I have not opened in the last [number] weeks. Make a list with sender, how often they arrive and when I last opened one. Do not act yet. Show me the list as multiple choice, so I can choose keep, archive or unsubscribe for each. You are done when I am unsubscribed from the ones I chose, and you have listed any that had no unsubscribe link.

Replace text in brackets with your own.

Read the original

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