![]() However, there are still newsletters I want to read daily. Then, when I have free time, I’ll go and read them en masse. The vast majority of my newsletters are trained to go to SaneLater. These account for around 25% of my inbox. And just when you want to unsubscribe from one, they send you an email that reminds you why you signed up in the first place. Great plans to read them at first, but you always end subscribing to more than you can handle. Newsletters! They’re like New Year’s Resolutions. Don’t need to read, but would like to when I have free time And for those email chains that won’t leave you alone (casinos and credit cards) and don’t listen to your unsubscribes, I take it a step further and drag them into the SaneBlackHole – never to hear from them again. Superhuman helps me breeze through these and SaneBox helps me banish them to a Black Hole.Īt the highest filter, I’ll just archive anything that looks like I don’t need to read it. You can spot these emails immediately and they really are just clouding the inbox. They are promotions, generic cold emails, and other general emails from different services I use (Apple Music to TurboTax to Facebook). I’d say that nearly 35% of my inbox is filled with these “offers I can’t refuse”. And they feel the need to send you a promotion once a week. Honestly, you go to Las Vegas one time for a conference and all of a sudden every casino on the planet has your email. Rather, they’ll just be in different places keeping the mind focused on daily, urgent emails that need responses. This isn’t to say that the others will be gone forever. Ideally, the only emails sitting in your inbox will be #5’s (and maybe the occasional #4). The overarching goal is always to maintain an inbox that is clear of distractions. And once an email has been mentally bucketed, I use shortcuts from SaneBox and/or Superhuman to further filter them, get them off my plate, quickly respond, etc. It only takes a few seconds to place each email in their bucket. Need to read, but the reply isn’t urgent (15%).Need to read or at least skim today (15%).Don’t need to read, but would like to read when I have free time (25%).Each email falls into one of five categories: ![]() It informs how I use these tools and acts as the first layer of filtering. But, without the right framework, there will be no rhyme or reason to how you’re filtering your emails. It’s easy to get carried away with powerful tools like these and go on an inbox cleaning binge. Without further ado, here’s how I use SaneBox and Superhuman in unison to manage my inbox. You better believe that I’m winning the email Olympics! Layer on top of that SaneBox and I’m now Usain Bolt… with a 30m head start. If daily email management were like running a 100-meter dash, then Superhuman turned me from a hobbyist runner into an Olympic sprinter. SaneBox set out to create AI filters for your email and Superhuman set out to create the fastest email experience. I waited 30+ days to really see if is worth the hype and the short answer is HELL YES! /lgsq8O7acR- QuHarrison Terry August 6, 2019 Together, the duo has quite literally taken me to superhuman emailing status. If SaneBox is the intelligent back-end filter, then Superhuman is the seamless front-end interface. Layering atop my already efficient inbox, Superhuman is a jolt of email adrenaline. While I’ve come to adore this personalized AI email filter, efficiency is a journey, not a destination. SaneBox, to me, is an extension of my brain that I could teach once and reap the productivity rewards forever. I loved the idea of being able to train a machine-learning algorithm to filter out my important from unimportant messages. When I came across SaneBox, the email filtering tool that learns over time, it was a no-brainer. It’s why ambitious, tech-minded professionals like me will jump on the opportunity to use a tool that saves even a few minutes all in the name of efficiency. ![]() But to achieve peak value requires you to minimize the amount of time wasted sifting through junk and maximize the opportunities created through emails.Īsk any high-profile professional and I guarantee that their email proficiency is 5x greater than yours in terms of emails received, read, and sent. There’s still a tremendous amount of value created and stored in any given person’s inbox. Email by some stroke of luck hasn’t fallen to the cycles of technology irrelevance like the fax machine and so many others.
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