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Mailbox, the new e-mail client that’s had the tech world all atwitter recently, has officially gone live in the App Store. Created by the productivity software masters at Orchestra, the ultimate goal was to reinvent the mobile-specific email experience.
Mailbox’s greatest innovation comes in the way you address e-mails: a single swipe to side will “snooze” still-unread emails, allowing you to effortlessly set them aside as you deal with the more important messages first. Read e-mails can also be deleted with a single swipe, which will supposedly encourage more active inbox cleaning.
Anyone eager to get on board with the behaviour-changing mail client is probably in for disappointment. While the app is currently open to the public, you’ll still need to sign up for a wait list that has become almost absurdly long. But at least the app lets you watch your progress in line as it inches along ever so slowly. [TNW]
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Does anybody clear their inbox out on their computer? I just leave all my emails in there so I can search for old emails easily…
This is great if we all still used emails to communicate messages.
The go out for drinks / hiking example looks brilliant but usually for conversations like that I’d use iMessage, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
totes. i don’t have a problem clearing my personal email inbox (work is an entirely different matter!!). it would interesting to see this idea integrated in to more messaging platforms including recent and missed calls from the phone app.
That’s a lot of people with bad e-mail habits. Learning to clear/purge your inbox (when you receive large amounts of mail) is actually a skill in itself, which you can learn with some simple techniques. This kind of thing seems more of a hip and shiny quick fix without actually solving the problem. And i’m not sure how it helps the people with 2000+ emails already stuck in their inbox. More than happy to be proved wrong though, should productivity gurus start chiming in with praise.
i think you’re right. with my work email (outlook) you can filter, label, flag, apply rule, quick step, the living s**t out of messages. doesn’t mean i’m gonna do it any quicker tho! the only thing that snoozing does is give you a long list of reminders
That 250,000 long waiting list is now waaaaaay over the 500,000 mark.
Not that us Brits don’t love a queue but why?