E-mail is one of those things that get really unruly before you realize they have. You sign up everywhere with your e-mail, get lots of spam from services that you almost forget you have even heard of, and all the important things, consequently, get lost in the noise. This is the problem Paperweight aims to solve. It is an open source application that helps you see what accounts or newsletters you subscribed to so that you can take a decision on them.Paperweight helps you reduce your digital footprint locallyYou probably already know that a digital footprint is the trail of information you leave behind when you use the internet. While it is not easy (nearly impossible) to erase the entire digital footprint, we sure can reduce it.There are premium services like Incogni from Surfshark that does this job for a fee. They look into all the data broker databases and also send the data deletion requests on behalf of you.Paperwight aims to help you do some of those tasks. The idea is this. You plugin your email into Paperweight. It scans all the emails and gives you:Accounts you signed up for or made a purchaseEmail lists (newsletters) you are onPersonal data (like phone number, payment details) in the messagesWhile you can bulk unsubscribe, rest of the action needs manual action. You will have to approach the respective websites by sending them emails individually.And here's the thing. All this processing happens locally on your system. The inbox is scanned on the system, there is no server in between, so no data collection. The source code is available so you can verify these claims.Let's see paperweight features in detail.Bulk UnsubscribeAll the services that send you e-mails are listed under "Mailing lists" right on the main window, and you can go in and check what e-mails you've been sent, how many, and the dates of the recent ones. Here's the exciting part: you can select multiple services at once and unsubscribe from their e-mails without having to individually open every single service's e-mail and going through the unsubscription process, which usually takes you through a few browser hoops. After selecting the services you wish to unsubscribe from, it becomes a simple matter of clicking the dumpster icon and confirming:📋Sometimes, some services require more intervention, so even if you select all the ones you wish to unsubscribe from, you might have to do a few individually. Also, some services simply cannot be unsubscribed from, such as YouTube's on Gmail. The selection box itself is grayed out for them.Note that many email services, including the privacy-focused ProtonMail has this feature built-in.Account InventoryAn entire "Accounts" section shows you exactly all the places where your e-mail is being used to log into other services. All the services where you did "login with Google" will also show up here if you're using a Gmail account. There, you can see the kind of access it has to your data, including financial, identity or health information, and gives you an unsubscribe as well as a "delete all e-mails" button.Again, the automated unsubscribe request may not always be respected by the service at the other end.Breach AlertsUnder the banner of the same accounts inventory, Paperweight also makes an exclusive list of services on that roster that have been known to be at risk or breached. It gets the security risk data from publicly available Have I Been Pwned, and gives you the options to delete/request your data, and to delete their e-mails on your account.GDPR Deletion TemplateGDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) gives users the "right to be forgotten". As such, mostly companies have to comply with the rule and relinquish any and all data they might have regarding an individual if the individual requests so. How does Paperweight come in? Well, they give you a template to request your data from any service you are subscribed to. Just click on the "Data requests" option down below in actions, and you'll see an almost fully written e-mail to get the company rid of your data.It is still not fully automatic but it is still better than doing it all from scratch.InterfaceThe user interface is pretty sleek and pretty simple. On the dashboard, three big blocks show the number of e-mails analyzed, mailing list subscriptions, and accounts where your e-mail is used. On the left, there are small buttons to access pretty much the same things. There are a few "at a glance" type lines showing recent activity and highlights of the analysis of the account. Finally, a frequency graph shows the number of e-mails you've received in the past few months.The interface for further options are shown in the screenshots above and pretty much show you all available options right on the face. You don't have to look too far for anything at all.Data TrafficJust out of curiosity, I tracked the network traffic going through Paperweight and to my relief, it only seems to be talking to the e-mail service providers' servers or the servers of the services that you're trying to modify. For example, there will be traffic to and from Canva's servers if you're trying to unsubscribe from their mailing list. Free vs LifetimePaperweight might be open source, but it is a freemium sort of application. There's a free version that lets you use Paperweight with one email account and 90 days of email history.And then there is a lifetime license that costs a one-time payment of $69 and gives you the option to add multiple accounts and scans through your entire past e-mail history.Here's the thing. The source code is available on GitHub, under the MIT license and if you want, you can fork the repo, modify the code to remove the restrictions, and use all the features. There is no constant validation for the license. However, that would be a breach of honor. Although I feel that $69 is a bit too much, probably because I am a student. Price parity and pay-what-you-want model would have been better. But that's just my opinion.Getting PaperweightPaperweight is available for all of the big three operating systems Linux, MacOS and Windows. On Linux, they provide an AppImage and a .deb package.Get PaperweightConclusionFor a lot of users, Paperweight probably provides a service that you had no idea you needed. But now that you are, you can use it periodically to maintain a clean and healthy inbox. Once a month, on a weekend should be good enough.The free version does feel limited, though, especially the 90-day history cap. I would have preferred a Melia like solution that allows full access for a single email account and lifetime license for multiple accounts.If you give Paperweight a try, do share your experience in the comments.