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INBOX HEROES
Once upon a time, receiving e-mail was a pleasant, even welcome experience. Now our inboxes buckle under the weight of an ever expanding morass of messages – many of which are ads and notifications sent by relentless machines rather than fellow human beings. […] These days, the best thing about e-mail isn’t getting it, it’s getting rid of it. Startups and established players alike are devising innovative tools for taming chaotic inboxes.[…] They’re free and work with your existing e-mail account, especially if it’s Gmail.
FIVE ROUTES TO AN ORDERLY INBOX
MAILBOX: When you don’t have time to deal with a message at this very moment, this app lets you banish it from your inbox – and then bring it back to the top at a time of your choice.[…]
MAILSTORM: It’s a specialized tool best used for deleting e-mail as swiftly as possible. You can use it to eradicate mail from your inbox in bulk – for instance, by deleting all the messages from a particular person – whether or not you’ve actually read them.
TENXER: Tenxer analyzes how long it takes you to respond to messages in Gmail. Then the service goads you into timelier communications through a bevy of stats and charts that track your progress toward faster responses.
ALTO: AOL’s ad-free service sucks e-mail from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other providers into one unified inbox. It automatically diverts not-so-vital missives such as ads and social-network notifications into stacks that you can peruse at your leisure or ignore altogether.
CLOZE: […] This ambitious app melds mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can check out, in one place, all the conversations you’ve had in any medium with a particular person — and they all get a Cloze score based on factors like the freshness and frequency of your interactions with them.
Time, March 4th, 2013
FIVE ROUTES TO AN ORDERLY INBOX
MAILBOX: When you don’t have time to deal with a message at this very moment, this app lets you banish it from your inbox – and then bring it back to the top at a time of your choice.[…]
MAILSTORM: It’s a specialized tool best used for deleting e-mail as swiftly as possible. You can use it to eradicate mail from your inbox in bulk – for instance, by deleting all the messages from a particular person – whether or not you’ve actually read them.
TENXER: Tenxer analyzes how long it takes you to respond to messages in Gmail. Then the service goads you into timelier communications through a bevy of stats and charts that track your progress toward faster responses.
ALTO: AOL’s ad-free service sucks e-mail from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other providers into one unified inbox. It automatically diverts not-so-vital missives such as ads and social-network notifications into stacks that you can peruse at your leisure or ignore altogether.
CLOZE: […] This ambitious app melds mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can check out, in one place, all the conversations you’ve had in any medium with a particular person — and they all get a Cloze score based on factors like the freshness and frequency of your interactions with them.
Time, March 4th, 2013
MAILBOX: When you don’t have time to deal with a message at this very moment, this app lets you banish it from your inbox – and then bring it back to the top at a time of your choice.[…]
MAILSTORM: It’s a specialized tool best used for deleting e-mail as swiftly as possible. You can use it to eradicate mail from your inbox in bulk – for instance, by deleting all the messages from a particular person – whether or not you’ve actually read them.
TENXER: Tenxer analyzes how long it takes you to respond to messages in Gmail. Then the service goads you into timelier communications through a bevy of stats and charts that track your progress toward faster responses.
ALTO: AOL’s ad-free service sucks e-mail from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other providers into one unified inbox. It automatically diverts not-so-vital missives such as ads and social-network notifications into stacks that you can peruse at your leisure or ignore altogether.
CLOZE: […] This ambitious app melds mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can check out, in one place, all the conversations you’ve had in any medium with a particular person — and they all get a Cloze score based on factors like the freshness and frequency of your interactions with them.
Time, March 4th, 2013
MAILSTORM: It’s a specialized tool best used for deleting e-mail as swiftly as possible. You can use it to eradicate mail from your inbox in bulk – for instance, by deleting all the messages from a particular person – whether or not you’ve actually read them.
TENXER: Tenxer analyzes how long it takes you to respond to messages in Gmail. Then the service goads you into timelier communications through a bevy of stats and charts that track your progress toward faster responses.
ALTO: AOL’s ad-free service sucks e-mail from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other providers into one unified inbox. It automatically diverts not-so-vital missives such as ads and social-network notifications into stacks that you can peruse at your leisure or ignore altogether.
CLOZE: […] This ambitious app melds mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can check out, in one place, all the conversations you’ve had in any medium with a particular person — and they all get a Cloze score based on factors like the freshness and frequency of your interactions with them.
Time, March 4th, 2013
ALTO: AOL’s ad-free service sucks e-mail from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other providers into one unified inbox. It automatically diverts not-so-vital missives such as ads and social-network notifications into stacks that you can peruse at your leisure or ignore altogether.
CLOZE: […] This ambitious app melds mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can check out, in one place, all the conversations you’ve had in any medium with a particular person — and they all get a Cloze score based on factors like the freshness and frequency of your interactions with them.
Time, March 4th, 2013
The program MAILSTORM mentioned in TEXT A
