the.com/gmail select all
one checkbox, unlimited regret — click it and you own every email you ever ignored.
means the small checkbox atop your inbox that selects every visible email, with a follow-up link to select every email matching your search, ever.
from born with gmail's 2004 conversation-view inbox, when google realized people would rather nuke their inbox than scroll it.
hidden second clickselect all only grabs the visible page first
undo windowgmail gives seconds, not minutes, to reverse bulk deletes
search scopedworks on filtered results, not just the whole inbox
for instance
select all promotions — clears years of marketing spam in one archive click
select all unread — used to mass mark-as-read after vacation email pileup