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Review: Unroll.me condenses emailed subscriptions into digests |
January 08, 2013
More and more email services are tackling the problem of email overload. One of the latest is Unroll.me, which attempts to organize your inbox by tidying up the mess left by all of those subscriptions most of us receive. Unroll.me has plenty of promise, but this free beta service remains a bit rough around the edges.
Unroll.me works with Gmail, Google Apps, and Yahoo email accounts; the company (also called Unroll.me) says it is working on adding support for AOL and other email services, but does not say when that will happen. You sign up for the free service online and link your email account, and Unroll.me goes to work automatically, scanning your email account to see which subscriptions you receive. It took just a few minutes for Unroll.me to scan a Gmail account that holds more than 10,000 messages.
Once the initial scan is complete, Unroll.me shows you your Rollup, which the company describes as "a digest that gives you an overview of the subscriptions you receive each day." By default, Unroll.me places all messages that it deems subscriptions into your Rollup, and it proved fairly accurate, though it did mistakenly identify messages from a few colleagues as subscriptions. You do have complete control over your Rollup, though, so it was easy to tell Unroll.me to deliver these messages to my inbox, instead.
Unroll.me automatically adds a folder to your email account, and all of your bulk messages are delivered directly to it.
You also can tell Unroll.me what time of day you'd like to receive your daily Rollup: morning, afternoon, or night. If you can't wait until your Rollup arrives to peruse its contents, you don't have to: you can either login to Unroll.me's website or you can take a look in the Unroll.me folder that's automatically added to your email account. All of your messages are delivered directly to this folder, which appears on mobile devices and any browser that you use to view your account.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2023763/review-unroll-me-condenses-emailed-subscriptions-into-digests.html
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