Your inbox is a to do list, to which anybody can add an action item
I’ve freed myself from email exhaustion using an amazingly useful cloud service called OtherInbox. I’m now consistently achieving email mecca: INBOX ZERO! OtherInbox acts as an auxiliary inbox to my main inbox allowing me to coral email that doesn’t require my immediate attention. It does this in a very convenient and innovative way by providing me with an infinite number of ad hoc email addresses. I can view messages sent to each of my ad hoc email addresses in my “other” inbox. Each address gets its own mailbox so I can go straight to the more important messages and ignore the email I care less about.
For example, my OtherInbox username is mprice. The email address associated with my facebook account is facebook [at] mprice.otherinbox.com. For flickr its flickr [at] mprice.otherinbox.com and for twitter it’s twitter [at] mprice.otherinbox.com. Since messages from facebook, flickr, and twitter don’t require my immediate attention I can just log in to Otherinbox once every couple days and get these messages on my time. Now only the messages that require my immediate attention hit my regular inbox. The best part is that I don’t have to do anything to set these addresses up, I can simply start using any @mprice.otherinbox.com address. In case I forget to check OtherInbox sends me daily notifications about the messages I’ve received. I’ve reduced the number of messages that I recieve on a daily basis by about 70%!
When I need to post my email address publicly or sign up for a service that requires an email address I just provide an OtherInbox address and I don’t have to worry about my regular inbox getting infiltrated with a bunch of spam. When I get tired of receiving mail from a service I simply block the mailbox in OtherInbox and I never have to see another message again. I can’t tell you how invigorating it is to block a mailbox that is being spammed!
OtherInbox went into public beta a couple weeks ago at SXSWi. Its free so give yourself a break and put your inbox at bay by signing up now!
