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20 September
Posted By
Joshua Baer

Need feedback from Gmail users: How to label?

When we connect OtherInbox to a Gmail account, we automatically find messages that aren't from real people and organize them inside of your Gmail account by labeling them OtherInbox and removing them from the Inbox by Archiving them. We synchronize the messages with your OtherInbox account and send you a daily digest so you don't miss anything important. 

At first we were going to give every Merchant its own label, similar to how we do it inside of OtherInbox. But we quickly realized that Gmail isn't designed to have hundreds of labels and that would get unmanageable with more than a handful of Merchants.

When we implemented the Automatic Organizer for Yahoo! Mail we were faced with a similar challenge because Yahoo! Mail also wasn't designed for hundreds of folders. Instead of making a single OtherInbox folder, we assigned each Merchant a Category and created a folder for each Category. So Yahoo! Mail users with the OtherInbox Automatic Organizer get a handful of folders such as News, Shopping, Sports and Social Networking.

Yahoo! Mail uses seem to like this setup a lot so we're wondering if we should make Gmail work the same way. Instead of one OtherInbox label, we would have the same labels that we show as folders in Yahoo! Mail.

What do you think? Please leave your feedback in the comments below.

This is what Gmail looks like now with everything getting the same OtherInbox label:

Gmail Organizer Now Edited

This is what Yahoo! Mail looks like now with the Automatic Organizer turned on:

Yahoo Organizer Edited

This is what Gmail would look like if we made it work like Yahoo! Mail does now:

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What do you think? Please leave your feedback in the comments below.

16 September
Posted By
Hoon Park

Automatic Organizer for Yahoo! Mail is now even better!

Since the introduction of Automatic Organizer for Yahoo! Mail earlier this year, many enhancements have been made to make saving your Inbox for real people even easier. We have been working hard improving Automatic Organizer to reflect the feedback from our users. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight a few new features now available to make your experience even more enjoyable.

File messages from new senders

Automatic Organizer is already set up to file messages from hundreds of different stores, social networks, and websites automatically without changing a single setting. However, if there’s a message from another sender that Organizer doesn’t pick up, it’s easy to change this. Simply drag-and-drop the message into the appropriate OIB folder.

Create your own OIB folders

In order to create your own folders for Automatic Organizer to use, simply add a new Yahoo! Mail folder and name it anything you like with the letters “OIB” in front of it, such as OIB Family, OIB Work, or OIB Restaurants. Then, drag-and-drop a message into this new OIB folder, and Automatic Organizer will file messages the same way from this sender in the future.

Change where your messages are filed

Within Yahoo! Mail, simply drag-and-drop a message from that sender from its current OIB folder to a new one. Or, you can open Automatic Organizer and choose a new folder or category next to the sender name.

Edit sender names

When a custom sender is created, sometimes the name of the sender is a
bit long or awkward. Open Automatic Organizer, click the sender name, type in a new name, and click OK.

Need help?

  • Post a Question: Post a question, problem, suggestion (or even a praise!) on our support site, powered by Get Satisfaction.
  • Tutorials: View a few short tutorial videos that demonstrate how to use Automatic Organizer.
  • Twitter: Follow us on Twitter @OtherInbox
  • FAQ: Have questions? We have answers.

Although we have undergone many improvements, we never stop discovering new ways to make Automatic Organizer work better for you. We are continuously rolling out new features with the help of our users. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. Thank you for your support!   

14 September
Posted By
Caroline Lim

Use OtherInbox to Manage your Email Newsletter Subscriptions

OtherInbox is featured as one of the 5 tips to managing your email subscriptions

By: Internet Marketing Coach, Andrew Lloyd Gordon
September 14, 2009

As Andrew Lloyd Gordon expresses his 5 tips to managing email newsletter subscriptions, OtherInbox is featured as #4 on his list. Taking advantage of the disposable email addresses feature, he “diverts the best of the newsletters into his OtherInbox account” and even mentions how “OtherInbox does it all for you.” Being a fan of subscribing to email newsletters through OtherInbox, he describes in detail the process and benefits of using his account.