Now figure this situation. Your are at the toe's end of cracking a important business deal. Your boss/manager wants you to dig for the client details from months back. If you are one of those who is a little unorganized or never does the regular cleaning up activity, finding that one mail is going to seem like a gargantuan task.
So what happens in such a situation is you end up mentally anlayzing a situation in a bloated parameter. Mess up in work follows.
This in short is what makes up a perfect email anxiety situation. More than physical, it is a psychological condition.
So here are 3 quite upcoming email services that promise to zero out those wasteful mails, while others ensure the inboxes are more organized.
1. Mailbox
Introduced this february, Mailbox is probably one of the most sought after apps for iPhone, that promises to bring down the inbox to count zero.
As of now it supports only Gmail, whose i.d the users can use to log in and use the 4 available actions suitable to the inbox messages- delete, archive, set a reminder or add to a to-do list.
The app is interesting as it lets you handle each message in your own way. The initial few days may be a little tough as many of us wouldn't wish to archive or delete all the messages in the inbox. It seems time consuming but this app is a good helping tool.
Additionally for those who don't use a iPhone but want a similar solution to handle mails, should try out Boomerang, a Gmail add-on available on Chrome that allows you to set reminders for messages.
2. Sanebox
This is one step ahead of Mailbox. While the previous app requires manual effort of sorting and swiping, Sanebox works automatically. Moreover, it is available for Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other email addresses. This service comes with a "Sanelater" function, that sorts out your unimportant mails into this folder. While it neatly categorizes all your social network site notifications and mails from different services seperately, one can also specify which ones you particularly want to see more often. Sanebox also informs the users through a "yes,an email" for those unresponded ones.
The lone fall back is that the service is not free. It can cost you somwhere between $2.04 a month for a single email account to 5 reminder mails a month. For two accounts, the cost is relatively $5.79 and 250 reminder emails.
3. Unroll.me
This service is a sweet one. For one it is free and a special one for those involved with marketing and social media jobs, specially.
Unroll.me sorts out all your subscribed newsletters and mails from brands and social media networks into a single daily mail. Moreover You get to choose what goes into this Rollup mail. In addition, this service allows users to get a social digest alongwith your social network notifications. Plus you can unsubscribe easily from those unwanted newsletters also easily, using Unroll.me.
In a nutshell, email anxiety is something that most people have to live on with but using help like a Sanebox or Unroll.me, certainly helps cut down the additional burden involved in the organizational side of things. This helps people, like you and me, prioritize what we actually want to see or have in our inbox and what is worth reading or looking at.
Do try out each one of them and let us know how your user experience was. If you subscribe to any other app or service that works better, you can let us know by leaving a comment below.
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