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Plan retiring an old email address
An address you have outgrown but cannot simply abandon.
I want to stop using the address below. From the emails listed, work out what that would break. Produce: services that would need their address updated, ranked by consequence if I forget; services where the address is the login itself rather than a contact field, which is the harder case; people who only have this address; and anything where losing it would lock me out permanently. Then a migration order — what to change first, what can wait, and how long to keep forwarding before actually closing it. Address and emails:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Cleanup and closing. Dormant accounts, dead newsletters, and getting data deleted rather than just unsubscribing.
Related prompts
Decide which old accounts to closeReducing how many companies hold your data, starting with the ones you no longer use.Write a data deletion requestClosing an account properly rather than just letting it sit dormant.Decide which newsletters actually earn their placeA hundred subscriptions where you genuinely read about four.Work out what to save before closing an accountThe step people skip, and regret a week later.Separate mail I need from mail I tolerateDeciding what should reach your inbox at all, versus a folder you visit deliberately.List every service I have an account withYou have signed up for hundreds of things over a decade and have no idea what they are.
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