How SaneBox works:

SaneBox is compatible with any email client or service including Apple Mail, Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Outlook and many more. It also works on mobile devices, laptops, desktops and of course smart phones! Basically anywhere you check email, SaneBox works! 

SaneBox isn’t an email provider, it just makes your email better!

Email Overload Is Not the Problem

Email overload has become a hot topic lately. According to a recent study by McKinsey, an average employee spends 13 hours a week reading and responding to email. That’s almost 30% of our time! Companies are looking for ways to replace email with services like Yammer, or just turn it off. Unfortunately email overload is not the problem. It’s the outcome of a much larger problem — there simply is more work, requiring communication with more people, faster.

Email is a perfectly good communication protocol, and it’s not going to be replaced in the near future.  Think of email as the four wheels that get you around – they supported the Model T just as well as they support Tesla. The part that needs innovation is what’s on top of those four wheels — it’s how you process and act on information you receive. Luckily there are lots of companies developing innovative solutions on top of email, making it better and more useful for employees and entire organizations. 

Riparian Data will be reviewing some of their favorite email add-ons, including  SendInc, Divide, Box OneCloud, AwayFind, Contactually, Sendgrid, Gander, and  Sanebox, during a hangout they’re hosting Tuesday, September 18th, at 1PM EST/ 10AM PST. While they can only have 8 direct participants, they’ll be broadcasting live, so everyone is welcome to follow along!

The event is posted here. You can also stay up-to-date by adding Sanebox and Riparian Data to your circles, and checking back with us Tuesday!

How to get SaneBox for free… forever

Last week, somewhat quietly, we fielded Referral Rewards. Thanks to Andrew Parker for a great idea.

Here’s how it works:

You join SaneBox. SaneBox will move distracting emails out of the way.  And using our defer, black hole, and SPAM monitor folders 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 sign up.  You auto-magically get another free 30 days of SaneBox. You get 30 days for every friend that signs up.

So sign up 11 friends this year and get SaneBox for free for the whole year!

Do this every year and you never have to pay us a cent.  But, shhhh…. don’t tell anyone because we’d like for some people to pay :-)

It is finally Summer in Boston.  Can you tell that puts all of us here at SaneBox into a good mood?

Using your “Digest of unread unimportant emails”

1. This is where you click to change the number of times you get the digest.

2. This is a link to a webpage to help you triage **all** your unimportant email at once.

3. If I want this bi-monthly payroll approval reminder to go in my INBOX, I would click here.

By default, all SaneBox users get a “Digest of unread unimportant emails” each afternoon.  This digest is a summary of all the emails that SaneBox moved to your SaneLater folder. And a summary of your trainings.

We created the digest to try to give users better habits around their unimportant email.  I have found that my beloved SaneBox users either completely ignore their SaneLater folder or they check it way too often.  We later added training info to the email because I wanted a convenient way for users to check on their most recent trainings.

Users that ignore their SaneLater folder have come to believe that putting emails off means you never have to deal with them.  The healthier approach is to triage those emails archiving most of them, promoting ones that are INBOX worthy, and dealing with the others as time permits. We will continue to empower the digest so that you will be able to do all these things quickly and easily.  Currently you can only easily retrain emails (stay tuned for POWER digest features coming to your email client soon)

Users that check their SaneLater folder too often are simply afraid to let go.  The digest is meant to be the security blanket that you need to do that.  Concentrate on the important stuff or better yet get something important done that has nothing to do with your email.  When the digest comes, check the unimportant stuff. Have the digest come more often if you are really anxious but stop nervously checking your SaneLater folder!

Thanks everyone!Stuart