How do I get less email?

Open the dashboard and select the project sending too much email. Then work through the options below, starting with the ones that improve quality before falling back to pausing delivery.

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Option 1: tune the project (recommended)

Click Edit project to adjust relevance settings. These changes improve what the project finds — not just how much it sends. Remove irrelevant categories If your project covers categories that are too broad for your actual focus, remove them. Fewer categories means fewer off-topic papers enter the feed. Tighten the interest description The description tells Paperzilla what you care about. A vague description produces a broad feed. Make it specific. For example, instead of:

Machine learning and neural networks

Try:

Efficient transformer architectures for on-device inference, focusing on quantization and pruning techniques. Only include papers where on-device or edge deployment is a primary concern. If a paper is about general model efficiency, data centers, or cloud inference without an on-device angle, do not select it.

The more precise your description, the more selective the matching. Remove boost keywords that are too broad Review your include (boost) keywords and remove any that are pulling in papers you don’t want. Boost keywords increase relevance scores — if a term is too general, it will surface too many papers. Add exclude keywords Exclude keywords are hard filters: any paper containing an excluded term is removed from your feed entirely. Use them carefully and only for terms you are confident you never want to see. A few targeted exclude terms can significantly cut noise.

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Option 2: turn off adjacent papers

If Include adjacent papers is enabled, Paperzilla surfaces related but non-direct matches alongside your top results. Turning this off limits the feed to papers that match your project more directly. In Edit project, set Include adjacent papers to No.

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Option 3: switch from daily to weekly

If your matches are good but the inbox cadence is too high, change Email frequency from Daily to Weekly. Weekly only changes the emails:

• your feed keeps updating continuously
• Paperzilla still creates digests in the app
• the weekly email sends the best-scoring papers from the past week, up to your max-paper limit

This is a good middle ground when you still want a regular digest but do not want as many emails.

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Option 4: pause email delivery

If tuning is not enough and you want to stop receiving emails entirely, go to Edit Email Delivery and set Email frequency to Pause email delivery. Digests are still created and visible in the app — they just won’t be sent to your inbox. Digests in this state show a Paused status badge.