Preferably in a more idiomatic kind of way.
I was thinking 'chaff', as in 'to separate the wheat from the chaff' (to separate the important details from the unnecessary ones), but am I right in thinking that that's used more in terms of people?
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1Yes, but it's also fine used in your context. – Edwin Ashworth Nov 24 '17 at 14:37
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The minutiae is one possibility:
the minutiae noun [ plural ]
small and often not important details:
- The committee studied the minutiae of the report for hours.
- Comedy is so often based on the minutiae of everyday life.
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Superfluous
adjective
unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.
The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information
