TEXT A
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
Which of the following statements is TRUE with reference to TEXT A?
