Leveling up: Gmail, and keeping your Gmail inbox size under control

The first few levels are easy:

Level 1: create an account. That got done a long time ago.

Level 2: receive some mail. At the moment, the inbox is 75% full. That's too full.

Level 3: delete some mail. In particular, I'm going to look for mail with attached pictures, and the goal is to whack back 5% of the inbox. Emptying the trash brought the total back to 74%. Searching for "has:attachment movie" helped winnow back some, but not really very much. I don't know how to search for messages by size - it would be nice to be able to sort by size, but you can't.

Some suggestions on "Keeping your Gmail inbox size under control" at Digital Inspiration from Amit Agarwal:

• search for "has:attachment from:me label:sent" offers opportunities for improvement
• attachments of a particular type are visible with "filename:jpg" or "filename:mp3"

Read the whole thing through for more. Note that you won't get real inbox size improvements until you empty your trash out, and your trash does get emptied automatically as messages have been in there for 30 days, so improvements by emptying it in advance are temporary. Down to 73% now.