Friday, December 20, 2013

SaneBox | Email Reinvented

This has NOTHING to do with baseball, but it could quickly become Americas next pastime...

I’ve been using email for most of my life. As I've evolved from a kid needing email strictly for filling out promotional forms, shipping info, or social networking login credentials, to a busy young professional who does most of his communication via email, email has evolved as well. It has improved in 3 key ways during that time:

mobile access
threading/conversations
search

But it’s still a mess, probably more so today than ever before (especially for those like me who have run their email address through the meat grinder of the internet). An average person spends about 28% of their time processing email, and virtually everyone continues to fight with their inbox every day. Just look at the number of folks trying to achieve inbox zero.

A little while ago a close friend of mine, who's pretty much always turning me on to the next cool thing in tech, told me about a product that would save me from email. And after trying it, I've been saved. Hallelujah.

The product is called SaneBox. You know how they say 'coolest thing since sliced bread'? This is the coolest thing since EMAIL started.

SaneBox does a number of things. It looks at your relationship with your emails and decides what’s important to you based on your past behavior. It then moves your unimportant emails out of your Inbox into a separate folder, and summarizes them in a digest. It’s smart, it evolves and it’s done automatically.
SaneBox does other stuff too (lets you unsubscribe with 1 click, snooze non-urgent emails until later, etc) but those are the killer features for me. Best of all, everything works anywhere you check your email (on any provider or device) just by adding a folder, instead of forcing me to use another website or app. And if SaneBox makes a mistake, I can just move the email to the correct folder to train it.

Soooooo... if you’re anything like me and you'd like to read your emails without being pestered by the son of the deposed king of Nigeria, then I suggest you give SaneBox a try.

16 comments:

himagain said...

Am I missing something here?
Gmail does all o'that for free! (For years!)

Unknown said...

I think the author also just learned about a new thing called America Online.

The Garden Master said...

Outlook has done this forever.

HRM said...

I think the "other stuff" is what's unique. Sounds like it might be Google and Outlook (I have both) refined. I'm gonne give the author the benefit of the doubt and go look at it.

randys2cents said...

Lol

Unknown said...

This post seems like it was written in the late 90's. lol

Unknown said...

Jeez you guys are so mean. The guy was just been nice.
I am terrified to start a blog because of mean comments, I would probably gets so upset I would hang myself.
Seriously, be nice...

Unknown said...

How does no one here get that this is paid advertising and not a blogger endorsement?

You got here by clicking on an ad!

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Unknown said...

Sorry, himagain, but can you show me how Gmail does analyse your mails and summarizes them for you while keeping them in a separate folder ? I've NOT seen that in either Gmail or outlook, which are the 2 products I use...

M4r10 said...

I guess this blogger should be really good on baseball!

DamianP said...

This is more useless than my Palestinian Alarm Clock...

Ugocrazy said...

I use scripts in gmail to do pretty much all this.

Not a shabby product but not for me.

Me, Myself and My Interests said...

The post is just an affiliate link. He gets $5 for every person who signs up. I un-installed this months ago after realizing it was paying which isn't or at least wasn't state up front. It really messed up my gmail for a while, just like some of the other services which offer similar services.
@Ugocrazy, are those scripts you use available for download somewhere. Would be interested in checking them out if they are.

Canyudo said...

Try sortd - in beta in the app store now. It does everything sanebox offers and more for free.

Cicero's Child said...

"An average person spends about 28% of their time processing email"

Really?