@macgenie and @jamesdempsey Thanks for the Weekly Review! I’ve been struggling with Inbox 0 for awhile! I’ve decided to use Mailstrom to try to get a handle on my inbox! 😁 Thanks for the push!
@EddieHinkle Good luck with it. It’s very powerful for crushing it down to zero. I’m still deliberating over Mailstrom vs. Sanebox for the long haul. They do different thingsthat I like, of course. 📤
@macgenie @EddieHinkle Interesting, I haven’t heard of Mailstrom before. Interesting difference on what Sanebox does.
@scientifics i ended up just being a bull in a china shop and deleting email en masse .. and unsubbing to just about every email newsletter ever.. now, i pretty much have inbox zero every single day..
@scientifics for too long, i had FOMO with email. until i started reading through it and found i had already missed out, and it wasn’t that good anyway..
@macgenie From 14,000 down to 500ish!! 🙌🙌 I post an official celebration post tonight/tomorrow when I reach Inbox 0
@EddieHinkle First, sorry for not replying sooner, for some reason your original post doesn’t show up in my Micro.blog mentions. (cc @manton). That is great news! Mailstrom is quite an email machete. I’d love to have @theweeklyreview merit badges @macgenie!
@scientifics Mailstrom’s ability to group inbox emails by category and bulk move, archive or delete them was very helpful in getting from Inbox 116K to Inbox Zero.
But I have started using SaneBox to keep only important emails in my inbox. Since Mailstrom operates only on your inbox, there is not much for it to do since I hit inbox zero.
My monthly Mailstrom renewal came up just two days after I reached inbox zero, so I let it run another month. I figured I'd spend another $6.95 and see how useful I find having both services.
I hope to do a longer post about my experiences with both tools and also think it might be a good topic for a @theweeklyreview episode. (What do you think @macgenie?) // @EddieHinkle @sergio\_101
@jamesdempsey have you run across any tools that do this locally on a Mac? Because my email can be used for password resets, I am very hesistant to give anyone other than my mail provider accsss to my account. Is that overly paranoid?
@jamesdempsey I think Sanebox vs. Mailstrom is a great topic for a show. (After WWDC, of course. I need time to really pull my impressions of the two services together.)
@steveriggins Some email providers like iCloud and FastMail require you to create a separate password for your account that is used by a specific service. I don’t know of a tool that does this locally on the Mac. In the past, I have used Apple Mail, just searching for senders and then selecting all and deleting / archiving / moving.
@steveriggins if you are paranoid, I am too. But when a bank offers an option to send an authentication code to that mail... plus the App Store - it starts being real. And while they might be very honest - but if somehow it escapes or is compromised ... nothing bad might happen but it’s still a pain.
@EddieHinkle Hi. I shared my thoughts on using email a while back. This might help. dazne.net/email/ // @macgenie @jamesdempsey
@fernando yeah for sure. So much is behind passwords now and not all of the services I use have 2factor, and some are just SMS
@jamesdempsey thanks! A second password is good, but if that service is compromised, then a bad actor can still read my mail and thus password reset requests until I shut down the service. At least I can shut it off without shutting myself out.
@steveriggins Yes, it definitely opens up a possible attack vector, so it's a matter of weighing the risk vs benefit.
@rishabh Thanks! I think we largely agree on the goal of how we use email. My issue was a build up of email because I was mostly ignoring email for the last 2 years rather than processing it. My celebration of getting down to Inbox 0 was my replacement of your “DMZ” folder. Instead I just used some tools to help me filter through a bunch of junk mail so that I could be ready to start processing my emails two times a day. That was a well thought out article. I’ll have to write an article later on about my email processes once I get them sorted out.