Friday, May 31, 2013

SaneBox


SaneBox, an email management assistant, struck me as unusual when I learned that it doesn't offer a free "lite" version of its product; there's only a 14-day free trial for the curious. But then I tried it, and I realized within the first day why many (many) people would be willing to pay for this service (from $6 per month). SaneBox is the first email management program that has actually worked for me.

SaneBox safeguarded my inbox from messages that I don't need to read, but I do need to scan. Put short and sweet, SaneBox gates your email. The app admits entry to emails only from people with whom you've swapped messages before, while pushing into a different folder mail from everyone else.

In my history of testing and tinkering with email productivity assistants, few have felt like solutions I would actually use, even though I liked what they did and thought they did it well. The Mailbox app for iOS, for instance, helps people triage email while on the go, but I found it required too much of my time to use in practice. Smartr Inbox for Gmail added value to my inbox by delivering information about people that I didn't have at my fingertips before, but it wasn't necessarily a tool I felt I needed day in and day out. SaneBox simply makes email simpler, not more complicated, and it's hard to now imagine living without it for business email.

My work relies on unsolicited messages from people I don't know, but I rarely if ever need to see those messages right when they arrive. SaneBox puts all those messages into one folder (or more than one if you start adding on more features from SaneBox's settings). On the other hand, messages from contacts with whom I have a history tend to be of higher importance. I need to read those messages relatively quickly.

Let me fully admit that I'm generally not a fan of filtering messages into another folder because it just creates the need to adopt yet another new habit?the act of checking that new folder?but with SaneBox, the system just works. I know there are emails worth scanning in that new folder, so I will check it when I can. Whether it will work for you largely depends on your current email needs and your personal preferences for how you weed your inbox. But it works very well, in my estimation, and is highly customizable if you purchase the right subscription plan.?

SaneBox's Simple Setup
To use SaneBox, all you have to do is enter your email and email password into the Web interface on the signup page. SaneBox works for Web mail (such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, etc.) as well as accounts hosted on IMAP and Exchange servers. There's nothing to download or install. The free trial doesn't require a credit card.

A short time after signing up, you'll receive an email explaining what changes SaneBox has made to your email, which amounts to creating a new folder called @SaneLater where it will automatically sort any incoming messages from email addresses to whom you have never written or replied before. All your other mail continues to flow into your inbox like normal.

I set up a SaneBox account with my corporate email, which is hosted through Gmail, but which I typically access using Microsoft Outlook running on my desktop PC. I was up and running with SaneBox in a couple of minutes. The new folder appeared on my local Outlook program, as well as in my Gmail webmail.

The email from SaneBox (and info on the website) explains that you can re-train SaneBox to sort mail differently by simply dragging messages from the @SaneLater folder into the inbox, or vice versa, depending on where you'd like messages from that address to go in the future.

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