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# Organize your WhatsApp

A WhatsApp inbox is a mess by design. Everything lands in one list with no structure, and the app gives you almost no tools to fix it. Perisclaw acts as a curator for your inbox — organizing chats at scale so the things that matter stay in front of you.

## What gets in the way

* **No way to categorize.** Work, personal, clients, and random groups all sit together in one list.
* **The important stuff gets buried.** The chats that actually need you get pushed down by busier ones, while notifications keep firing from groups that don't matter.
* **No bulk actions.** Muting, archiving, and marking chats read all have to be done one chat at a time — so it rarely gets done.

## What Perisclaw can do

Just ask in plain language and it handles the fiddly work for you:

* **Label your chats** by relationship, project, or priority — across your whole inbox in one pass, or as you go. Once they're labeled, you can act on a whole group at once: *"let all my work chats know I'm OOO today."*
* **Summarize any chat over any range** — what was discussed, what was decided, and anything that needs you. Summaries work across a label too, so *"catch me up on work"* is a single request.
* **Mute and unmute** by name, by label, or by description — for an hour, a week, or until further notice.
* **Mark chats read or unread in bulk** — clear hundreds of stale badges in one instruction, or flag a chat to come back to.
* **Pin and unpin** so what's current stays on top, no matter who messaged last.
* **Archive and unarchive by rule, not by chat** — everything untouched for three months, every group you've never replied to, or any set you can describe.

![An inbox-management proposal from Perisclaw: a numbered list offering to apply a Finance label, archive 8 stale threads, and mark 15 unread messages as read — ending with "Just say 'do it' for all, or pick a number."](/files/lfD3zvwhGglButJAfrHg)

{% hint style="info" %}
For a big cleanup, Perisclaw first **proposes** the label names and which chats go where, and only applies them once you approve — so you don't end up with a pile of near-duplicate tags. It reuses labels you already have and keeps names short and clear.
{% endhint %}

## Things to ask

* *"Label all my client chats as priority."*
* *"Archive every chat I haven't opened in 3 months."*
* *"Summarize the last 200 messages in the launch group."*
* *"Mute all my building society groups for a week."*

{% hint style="warning" %}
Archiving and deleting affect your real WhatsApp, so Perisclaw confirms before sweeping a large set of chats — and deleting a chat, which is hard to undo, always needs your explicit OK.
{% endhint %}

Labels pair well with [chat modes](/security-and-control/chat-modes.md) and [triggers](/skills-and-integrations/triggers.md) — see [Groups & labels](/skills-and-integrations/groups-and-labels.md) for more on running groups and tagging your chats.


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