An email client concept. Focus on people and attachments

Litmus tests and tracks your email campaigns,
so you can always put your best design forward.

This is SaneBox, an impressive auto-filtering application for Gmail. I tried it before Priority Inbox was released, and then disabled it to try on Priority Inbox. Now I use both, but SaneBox is a more effective app for managing email.

Priority Inbox provides a visual hierarchy of your inbox, which is nice, but not a game changer. You still have to be an Inbox Zero Jedi or set up a bunch of filters and labels to achieve email zen. SaneBox to the rescue. The app learns from your email behavior and then automatically filters less important email out of your Inbox and into labels that SaneBox creates for you. This is a game changer. Before SaneBox, I would either manually process every email (except for spam) or set up countless filters and labels that would never be complete. After SaneBox, I estimate 70% of email that used to hit my inbox now go into the new SaneBox labels thanks to the SaneBox filters. I scan the mail in those labels a couple times a day, but don’t open every one. In fact, I don’t open most of them. They’re ignored and eventually deleted. It’s awesome.

Then I discovered the @SaneTomorrow and @SaneNextWeek labels, and my opinion of SaneBox went from great to epic. When you move any emails into the @SaneTomorrow label, the email disappears from your Inbox but then reappears the next day. The same logic applies to the @SaneNextWeek label. So now I can save important emails for later, but still remove them from my Inbox. I guess you could achieve this by starring these emails, but that requires the user to address the starred label on a regular basis. SaneBox removes this effort by re-inserting these emails into your Inbox at a time you define. Brilliant.

And oh by the way, the creator of SaneBox is on Tumblr.

Do you access your email in a browser? Then you'll love Notify. Notify is an awesome email notifier for Mac OS X. It fits seamlessly into your menubar, only vying for your attention when you have new mail. Notify supports mutliple accounts, including Gmail/Google Apps, MobileMe, and Rackspace Email.

reMail downloads all your email to your iPhone and lets you search full-text at light speed

TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.

Use Gmail? Get Xoopit! Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.

I’m using a fairly simple mailbox structure in Apple Mail. In each of my IMAP accounts, I’ve created an “Archive” mailbox. Once a day or so, I move all the unflagged, read messages from each inbox to the corresponding Archive mailbox for that account. Here’s an AppleScript that automates this inbox sweeping. It assumes that every IMAP account (including .Mac accounts) has an Archive mailbox.

Several computer science students at the University of Toronto and Seneca have made it their class project for this semester to port Ubiquity to Thunderbird and make it run there.

There’s no doubt about it, I’m in love with the cloud. Some people might not share my fascination with storage-in-the-cloud and compute-in-the-cloud models but I can’t wait to have the same computing experience regardless of the computer or device I’m using to connect to the Internet. I’ve taken it upon myself to change my workflow and digital lifestyle to get as much of my data online and make use of web-based tools until that utopian time comes. Here’s how I do it and you can do the same.

Thunderbird extension Seek adds advanced search and sort functionality to the open source email client, Thunderbird, through a feature called faceted browsing. As you can see in the screencast above, faceted browsing narrows down emails by a number of conditions, introducing tons of useful ways to slice and dice your inbox to find exactly what you want.

The QuickText Thunderbird extension saves collections of reusable text snippets that help you whip up personalized replies to repetitive e-mail messages with a few keystrokes.

AutoSend Unsent Messages. Flushes entire outbox at regular intervals.

Attachment Reminder is a simple Add-on (extension) for Mozilla Thunderbird that scans your outgoing email when you click the send button and checks it for the presence of user-defined keywords that signal that an attachment should be included. If there is no attachment even though the scan indicates there should be, it will show a message box asking you to confirm whether you want to send the email without attachments.

Well, as people rely on email as a primary means of communication, and everyday users deal with a mounting level of new messages per day, even more advanced features can help all of us keep our inbox under control.

Howto migrate your e-mail to Google Apps.

With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.

Who sent you the most email messages last year? What hour of the day do you receive the most new messages? Which of all the mailing lists you're on are the most active? A new command line tool called Mail Trends works with Gmail over IMAP and can give you

Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context t

Hide e-mail addresses from spam bots while revealing them to readers as real, clickable links. This transparent and fully automated solution guarantees that all addresses on your site will be safe—even the ones that show up in blog comments!

iContact allows businesses, non-profit organizations, and associations to easily create, publish, and track email newsletters, surveys, blogs, autoresponders, and RSS feeds.

Inbox Zero is a fantastic talk by Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website. Merlin talks about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume

If we focus on simplifying our online lives, we can drastically reduce the amount of time we spend online, the amount of time we spend working, the amount of information we have to consume, and the amount of stuff we have to keep track of.

However, there are two Gmail search tricks that aren't well-known (one isn't even documented) that, combined with the search operators, turn Gmail searches into something fierce: parentheses and curly brackets.

"To save you the time, I've compiled the best Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into one handy Firefox extension, called Better Gmail."

Thunderbird is the ultimate open source desktop email app. Its pluggable interface lets developers freely build extensions to make it ever more useful. And ever more useful do a few key extensions make it.

Are you drowning in email? Is your inbox a source of constant low level stress? Over the last year, David Allen’s GTD has completely changed my work habits and I am now a happier, more efficient, less anxious web worker.