Review: AwayFind lets eagerly anticipated emails find you

September 02, 2013

Most of us check email too much far too often. If you want to cut the ties that bind you to your inbox, but don't want to worry about missing out on important messages, meet AwayFind, a handy service that lets your email find you. To use AwayFind, you sign up for an account by supplying a few basic details, or—if you use Gmail or Google Apps—connecting to that account. It works for anyone who has an email account and a phone, and it doesn't even have to be a mobile phone. Once your account is up and running, AwayFind delivers alerts, via a phone call, text message, or push notifications, when you receive an important email. That way, you'll know when you need to check your email, rather than monitoring your inbox all day. And AwayFind makes it very easy to specify when you do—and don't—want to be notified. You tell AwayFind where to reach you, and it tracks you down. AwayFind doesn't decide which emails are important. Instead, you tell it exactly what you're looking for. You can set up your notification preferences using AwayFind's website, or via the browser extensions and add-ons available for Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. The mobile apps for iOS and Android also allow you to set up and manage your alerts, which is a nice touch if you want to make changes when you're already out and about. You can set up alerts by people, topic, date, or time. You can, for example, choose to be alerted anytime you receive an email from a specific person, email address, or domain. You can also choose to be alerted whenever a subject line contains a certain word or phrase. In addition, you can link a calendar to AwayFind and choose to receive alerts when anyone with whom you've scheduled a meeting in the next 15 minutes to 36 hours sends you a message. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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