February 2012
10 posts
The Email Charter: 10 Rules to Reverse the Email...
Previously we revisited the lost endeavor of “paying it forward” and integrating the idea into daily email rituals. We evaluated our email communication and what we could do on our end to make life a little easier for the recipients of our messages. Now that we’ve mastered how to respect each others time, let’s keep pushing to become email Samaritans.
As promised, here are the next three steps...
Do I Really Need to Send This Email? [Infographic]
The Internet: a vast expanse of distractions, armed to the teeth and laying in wait to ambush unsuspecting employees with adorable kittens and kids falling over – many of which make their attack through email. To combat this obscenity, we made a flow chart to help guide you through the daily task of deciding whether or not to hit send.
Follow the chart and let us know where you end up! While you...
SaneBox + RescueTime = Love at First Sight
Do you spend a lot of time online but sometimes wonder just how much work you are getting done? Used to happen to us all the time until we found (and fell in love with) RescueTime. Sanebox+RescueTime is a match of highly effective email management and productivity made in heaven.
RescueTime is a service that helps you easily understand and optimize how and where you should prioritize your...
You’ve Got (Video) Email [Infographic]
Regardless of whether you are getting video email or dogs in business suits, SaneBox can help manage your inbox. (How cool would a video of dogs in business suits be?)
For the typical small business, email marketing is used o reach the most relevant audience and drive conversion rates. But today, these email blasts are getting a negative reputation, ending up discarded in SPAM inboxes. Enter the...
Do you back up your computer? You should!
Don’t wait until you lose something. A hard drive can crash any time – even a solid state hard drive on your brand new Macbook Air (happened to a friend recently!) Just because you use IMAP and the email is held on your email server doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do backups. One would hope that your email service provider does backups too, but it is better to have control of your own life.
For...
FREE 5 Lifetime Memberships for SaneBox – $4,000...
SaneBox separates your most important emails from the ones that can wait, helping you prioritize the way you read your messages and saving you time and frustration. Five lucky winners will win a FREE subscription for life!
The contest ends March 23rd, 11:59PM CDT so you have plenty of time to rack up extra entries. How do you do that? Glad you asked. Once you visit the Appsumo page, you’ll find...
Rapportive: An Essential Plugin for Email Contact...
If email management is something you’re struggling with there are a number of browser plugins that will help you avoid that feeling of email overload.
One such plugin that the team here at Sanebox are very impressed with comes from the crew at Rapportive. This Gmail and Google Apps plugin is a free add-on that works with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Mailplane.
The clue to the thinking behind...
The Email Charter: 10 Rules to Reverse the Email...
Have you seen “Pay it Forward”, a Kevin Spacey movie from 2000? If you have, there’s no doubt you were inspired to adopt this karma-generating lifestyle of doing good deeds for our immediate circle, hoping it would spread and catch on universally. But let’s be honest, that movie came out twelve years ago and since then our time has been radically monopolized by keeping up with day-to-day issues....
Security at Sanebox
Security at SaneBox is job one.
By design, we limit the information that is held on our servers. Your email never resides on our servers, except for the moment that we send your Sane RemindMe email back to you (and even then we try to measure in seconds the time that any one email is on our disks).
Also by design, SaneBox acts as a client so that if our service should be down for a minute or two...
Clear Inbox, Clear Mind
You walk into work, sit down at your desk, log into your email and there it is. A flooded inbox of new assignments, spam, left over emails from last week, more spam (how did they get my email address!), and the memo that the third floor copier is jammed again. Your already serious case of the Mondays just got worse. If you have a physical or emotional reaction to this email overload, you’re not...
January 2012
6 posts
SaneBox RemindMe – Tracking Who Didn’t Reply &...
We just fielded a new feature we call Sane RemindMe.
It solves two big problems at one shot.
scheduling email processing without a folder in a more granular way
keeping track of emails that haven’t received a reply yet
Like all SaneBox related things it is easy to use.
When sending an email…
add a special SaneBox address as a recipient in the TO: or CC: or BCC: field.
This special SaneBox...
What do you do with the Email Once you’ve Read and...
(this was asked by a user today and it seemed like a topic screaming out for a blog post)
First, that’s a good question.
I’m a big fan of INBOX zero so I do strongly suggest moving your processed INBOX email out of that folder. See my comment below about were to put it.
Having said that, I don’t think you need to be compelled to clean out your unimportant folders. SaneLater zero just doesn’t have...
SaneBox Face Lift Continues
To all our beloved SaneBox users, please log in and check out our new settings page .
(and for those non-SaneBox lunatics out there… run and sign up for SaneBox right now… jeez)
I thought fielding this new page presented an opportunity to talk about what we hope to accomplish with our new face lift. Probably all of this is common sense to most of you…
But, for me this was a revelation that...
Sane News
Notice 2 new buttons in your SaneBox email digest!!
Flag &Train these emails… takes you to a web page to conveniently do that. You can also archive from that web page!
Archive All… yeah you can just archive them all. If you don’t have an archive folder, we will create SaneArchive for you and put them there. We also call this the Bijan-Button (his idea).
If you see something you want to...
Soon You Won’t Have to Visit Your SaneLater Folder
We here at SaneBox think you should spend as little time as possible on your email. You have better things to do with your time!
So we take the unimportant stuff out of your INBOX so it won’t distract you.
And we send you an email digest of the unimportant stuff so you can quickly search for nuggets of gold.
Now you can move those nuggets to your INBOX from the digest!!!
If you are like me...
What Does Your SaneBox Ranking Mean?
Your weekly activity report now declares your “ranking” amongst the other SaneBox users. What does this number mean?
The idea behind the ranking is to give each SaneBox user points for good email behavior and take away points for bad behavior. Your overall count reflects this algorithm. And your particular ranking is meant to nudge users to develop better email habits.
The ultimate SaneBox...
December 2011
6 posts
Announcing… User Defined Sane Folders
Hi Guys,
We have always tried to make SaneBox as GTD-like as possible. GTD means do what is most important right now. Keep your focus and be productive. SaneBox does this by creating an INBOX with exactly what you need to deal with NOW. But, GTD also points out that there are projects that need to get done later that require little pieces of work as you go along. Now SaneBox addresses this too.
...
SaneBox RemindMe - tracking who didn't reply and...
We just fielded a new feature we call Sane RemindMe.
It solves two big problems at one shot.
scheduling email processing without a folder in a more granular way
keeping track of emails that haven’t received a reply yet
Like all SaneBox related things it is easy to use.
When sending an email…
add a special SaneBox address as a recipient in the TO: or CC: or BCC: field.
This...
How to get SaneBox for Free… Forever
Last week we released new “5 by 5 Referral Rewards”. Here’s how it works:
You join SaneBox. SaneBox will move distracting emails out of the way, and using our other features you will save yourself copious amounts of time and effort. AND your first 30 days are free.
Then, you invite a friend to sign up for SaneBox either using the invitation page or sending them a special invitation link. They...
Status of SaneBox
In my on-going attempt to live my startup life out loud, here is the status of SaneBox.com
SaneBox was started on 2/20/2010.
It automatically files unimportant emails into a @SaneLater folder so your Inbox is free of distractions.
It does this with global rules and a statistical analysis of your email history and your relationships with other social networks. Training is as easy as moving an...
