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Get Organizer for iCloud

Organizer is now available for iCloud! If you use Apple’s iCloud for email, or its predecessor MobileMe, you can get started right now.

With Organizer for iCloud, you’ll enjoy all of Organizer’s helpful features, from your automatically organized inbox to the Daily Digest, a single email summarizing everything that’s recently been organized for you. Organizer helps you take control of your email.

Do you have friends that use iCloud and envy your streamlined inbox? Let them know the solution is here — Organizer for iCloud.

Introducing Message Finder

At OtherInbox, we’re dedicated to making email better. You may already be using Organizer and Unsubscriber to improve your inbox.

Today, we’re introducing our latest creation, Message Finder for iPhone!

Message Finder makes it easy to find an email on your iPhone. At a restaurant and looking for your daily deal? Tap Offers and locate it in seconds. Need your boarding pass at the airport? Check Travel. It’s the email you want, when you want it.

Best of all, you don’t have to do anything. Just add your Gmail or Yahoo! account and Message Finder takes care of the rest. As new emails arrive, Message Finder groups them into categories like Receipts and Social so you can find the right email, right away.

We have a lot planned for Message Finder, including support for additional services and search. We hope you share your feedback with us. You can do so from the app, on the web, or right here in the comments.

Download Message Finder from the App Store now!

Unsubscriber now available for Gmail

Last year, we released Unsubscriber for Yahoo! Mail. Since then, we’ve heard a lot helpful feedback and encouraging reviews. Now we’re ready for more people to enjoy Unsubscriber.

Today, we’re releasing Unsubscriber for Gmail, our latest free tool. Unsubscriber is the simplest way to stop emails you don’t want.

Just move unwanted messages to the Unsubscribe folder and Unsubscriber takes care of the rest. You don’t have to answer questions or remember passwords. Plus, any new email from that sender is routed to your Unsubscribe folder while we notify the sender that you want to be removed from their list.

Hundreds of thousands of emails are added to Unsubscriber every day. It’s a satisfying way to simplify your inbox. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Questions?

I already use Organizer for Gmail. Is Unsubscriber for me?

With Organizer, you have all the benefits of the Unsubscribe folder, plus a bunch more. There’s no need to install Unsubscriber if you are already enjoying Organizer.

Do you plan on supporting other email providers?

Definitely! Look for Unsubscriber for Aol next.

Where is the best place for questions or letting you know about a bug?

Visit our Support site. We’re here to help.

New in Organizer: New navigation and simplified settings

Andy Smith recently joined the team here at OtherInbox as our new in house UX and UI developer. We’ve been keeping him busy with some fun new projects, but he has recently had time to improve our Organizer product as well. Today for Yahoo! Mail users (coming soon for Gmail and AOL fret not) is a cleaner navigation bar.

I’ll think you’ll agree that less is more, and the new design lets you quickly and easily move about the app. You’ll also notice that your personal dashboard is now the default page when you open the app. While he was cleaning things up Andy also took the opportunity to simplify the Settings page, nice work.

Don’t be shy about letting us know what you think or what else we can do to improve your Organizer experience. Simply drop us an email at help@otherinbox.com, tweet us on Twitter or post up on Facebook!

Digitwirl shows you how to tame your Out-of-control Inbox

Carley may just look like any other Supermom with 2 kids and a dog on the outside, but she’s so much more than that. She’s also the Founder of



  1. A weekly how-to video that features technology to simplify your busy life.
  2. The happy dance you do when tech actually works for you.

The Digitwirl weekly web show features quick, how-to, videos that show you most practical gadgets, useful websites and clever apps to simplify your hectic life, and then teach you how to use them. Each week, we teach you ways to save money, time, and a few gray hairs.

This week Digitwirl shows you how Organizer can help tame your out of control Inbox.


New in Organizer: Introducing the Dashboard

Here are OtherInbox we are always looking at ways to make your email life even easier. With the latest update we have introduced a new tab in Organizer for our Yahoo! users called the Dashboard.

The Dashboard

Like the Daily Digest the Dashboard groups your emails into categories, like Offers, Shipping Notices,  Social Updates and Travel etc.

Catgories

Looking for a special offer? Need to find that confirmation code in a hurry? Keeping up with your busy social life? then the Dashboard is your new best friend!

The Dashboard also has “Quick click” links, which take you directly into the action without having to open the email first. Got a friend request? Just click on “Accept” from the dashboard to jump directly to Facebook.

QuickClicks

To take a look at your own email Dashboard just click on Automatic Organizer in the list of applications inside Yahoo! mail.

Automatic Organizer

Don’t be shy about letting us know what you think or what else we can do to improve your Organizer experience. Simply drop us an email at help@otherinbox.com, tweet us on Twitter or post up on Facebook!

New in Organizer: Senders page revamp

For most of our users the Organizer works just fine, right out of the box. But if you have a hankering to customize the application we’ve got some great news. We’re delighted to introduce you to the new and improved senders page. If you use Yahoo! Mail click on Automatic Organizer in the application list to access the Senders page.

Where is that sender?

You can quickly find the sender by typing their name into the search field. Still to many senders? Reduce the scope of the search by selecting one of the pre-defined categories, like Shopping, Entertainment, etc. The list of sender is also sorted to display with the most recently added senders at the top of the list, or you can switch it to an alphabetic list. Quick, easy and convenient.

Customizing is easy

Found the sender, now what? With just one click you can stop Organizer from moving the emails from this sender out of your Inbox. Or change the folder that Organizer uses for emails from this sender. You can still rename the sender if it takes your fancy.

More control!

But say you want more control than simply on/off? For example maybe you want most of the emails from your bank moved to your OIB Finance folder, but not the alert emails they occasionally send.

More Control

With the new Senders page you have that level of control! Enter the name of the sender into the search field. Then click on the triangle next to their name to see a list of all the email addresses that they use. Now you can control which emails are organized and which ones remain in your Inbox!

Don’t be shy about letting us know what else we can do to improve your Organizer experience. Simply drop us an email at help@otherinbox.com, tweet us on Twitter or post up on Facebook!

New in Unsubscriber: emails marked as read

About a month ago we launch our new Unsubscriber product for Yahoo! mail. The easiest way to unsubscribe from those pesky newsletters and promotional emails, by just moving them into the Unsubscribe folder. No user names or passwords to remember, just peace of mind and a cleaner Inbox.

It has been a huge success with over 550k emails being moved into the Unsubscribe folder everyday. The majority of the feedback that we’ve received is praise for the application along with some suggestions on how to improve it. The most common being that emails in the Unsubscribe folder should not be counted as unread. Seems you don’t like to be reminded that those emails ever existed!

So now, if Unsubscriber moves an email out of your way, it will mark it as “read” as well. Your Unread count will no longer include emails moved by Unsubscriber.

This only affects new emails that are processed, so if your Unsubscribe folder has unread emails in it and you want to clean it up, just follow these simple steps;

  1. Open the folder list, by clicking on the triangle next to the word folder.
  2. Click on the Unsubscribe folder.
  3. Select all the emails in the folder.
  4. From the actions menu select “Mark as Read”.

Note that any unread emails that you manually move into the unsubscribe folder will not automatically marked as read.

Don’t be shy about letting us know what else we can do to improve your Unsubscriber experience. Simply drop us an email at help@otherinbox.com, tweet us on Twitter or post up on Facebook!

Girl walks into Gmail with Organizer… Getting my dad Organized!

After a call on Father’s Day, I planned to set up Organizer for my Dad. With 15,000 plus emails in his inbox, he had been pretty close to email overload for quite some time! Dad’s Gmail is mainly for his work as an attorney, so while Organizer did not automatically create folders for all the court notifications and seminar updates that usually flood his inbox, we were able to easily create the custom folders he needed!

So we set up two new folders for his countless ACDLA and Alacourt emails. In Gmail, under “manage labels” we created a new label – OIB ACDLA and OIB Alacourt.

I was sure to nest it under the OIB folder so Dad’s sidebar stays nice and neat!

Then we took a look at all the fluff. You know, the stuff my dad doesn’t care about but for some reason he just ignores when it comes in. Yep, it was time for the OIB Unsubscribe folder!

We unsubscribed my Dad from a newsletter he’s had in his inbox since 2007. He couldn’t believe it was so easy to get rid of. Now he can safely and easily unsubscribe from stuff anytime!

So we started with 15,000 emails in Dad’s inbox…  After Organizer? 200!

My Dad is very very pleased! And with his email straightened out, Mom is happy too – especially since Dad won’t be asking her “did you delete that email?” Mom is an highly organized individual. Dad?  Well, not so much… but now at least his gmail account can be! ;)