> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paperzilla.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How do I get less email?

> Reduce Paperzilla email volume by tuning relevance, switching to weekly digests, or pausing email delivery.

export const AiAgents = ({path}) => <Tip>
    <b>AI agents</b>: This page is available as <a href={path + '.md'}>markdown</a>. See also the <a href="/llms.txt">docs index</a> and <a href="/llms-full.txt">full docs</a>.
  </Tip>;

<AiAgents path="/answers/less-email" />

Open the [dashboard](https://paperzilla.ai/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.

## 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.

## 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**.

## 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.

## 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.

<Tip>
  If you pause email delivery, consider setting up an [RSS/Atom feed](/guides/feeds) in a feed reader instead. You keep full access to new papers without inbox pressure.
</Tip>