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Taming Email Overload With SaneBox

May 12th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink

Information explosion (Photo credit: Emilie Ogez)

Sanebox, this is a startup i really like, because they make my inbox managable. they are for email, what evernote is for notes. they just get it.

Taming Email Overload With SaneBox

Calling email overload “a crisis in communication”, TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington issued a challenge back in 2008: “Someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not miss important messages.

via: techcrunch.com

basically, it’s just a ‘priority inbox’ that actually works – they classify less important emails correctly, and they send me a summary at the end of the day. it turns out, most of unimportant stuff is just spam, or automated reminders that I can just glance over and forget.

simple concept, that makes all of us a bit more productive – how much does the planet gain, if we all save 30 mins each day?

There’s an App For That: SaneBox | Time & Space (shanecrombie.com)
SaneBox Offers Solution to Email Overload (pandodaily.com)
Coping With Email Overload (e1evation.com)

tower of babel emerging – auto-translated gmails

May 11th, 2012 § Comments Off on tower of babel emerging – auto-translated gmails § permalink

finally! this is so incredibly important for the global society!

not only it is possible to read anything by auto-translating web pages, now anyone will be able to communicate to anyone else. next step – transparent translations of IM and phone call in real time!

Google launches automatic message translation in Gmail

Now, you would be able to comprehend emails you receive in other languages. Google has just announced that it would be rolling out the automatic translation feature in Gmail over the next few days. “Over the next few days, everyone who uses Gmail will be getting the convenience of translation added to their email,” Jeff Chin, Product Manager,…

via: www.buzzom.com

Double Recall

February 26th, 2011 § Comments Off on Double Recall § permalink

Image by Rev. Voodoo via Flickr

I’m reallyÂ strugglingÂ with sorting out email recently. I think I have a strategy now, just need someone to build a plugin, or tell me it exists already. Here’s what it should do:

Mail client plugin that is constantly building whitelist and blacklist of senders by automatically replying to every new sender with a very kind note asking her to just reply so that we verify she’s human. this happens just once and then the rest of the communication is normal forever.

… Preferably for Google Apps. 😉