Sanebox review: Recover your email sanity

December 04, 2013

Sanebox has grown up since I first reviewed it a year and a half ago, adding some new features that (mostly) impressed me. It’s suffering from a few growing pains, but it remains one of the few email services that lives up to its promise of saving you time by bringing order to your inbox. Sanebox automatically creates folders anddelivers some messages directly to them, bypassing your inbox. The cloud-based Sanebox works with any IMAP-based email service. You simply enter your email address on their site and give the service permission to access your account. It then goes to work analyzing the contents of your inbox. You can connect social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter in order to give Sanebox more information on which to base its decisions. Those decisions are about which emails you need to see now versus those that can wait until you're ready to deal with them. And Sanebox does a remarkably good job of determining that: It whittled my Gmail inbox down to 86 unread messages. Impressive, especially when you consider that it started with nearly 1,000 unread items. Sanebox doesn’t delete emails, but simply organizes them into folders it creates, called “SaneArchive,” “SaneCC,” “SaneLater,” and “SaneNews.” Sanebox’s daily digest shows you the messages that bypassed your inbox. Once the service is activated, messages that belong in those folders are delivered right into those folders, rather than cluttering up your inbox. And Sanebox alerts you with a daily digest message so you can see which messages you may have missed and allows you to train the service, so that it will deliver future messages into the right place. You also can check these folders at any time to make sure you’re not missing anything important. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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