Hiawatha Bray, in his Boston Globe Tech Lab article “Powerful tools for managing your online life” reports on how webmail has come of age. Recent innovations at Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail have not only come from their own development teams, but from a growing number of partners like OtherInbox as well.

“Where Microsoft built its own software for sorting incoming messages, Yahoo Mail offers an optional link to a service called OtherInbox. Once installed, OtherInbox sets aside mail from financial companies like banks and credit card issuers, as well as social networking sites. You can also add new sorting categories of your own.”

“Google’s Gmail service is also swarming with innovation. Some comes from OtherInbox, which has created versions for Gmail as well as Hotmail.”

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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 MotherCraft, a resource that “empowers moms to find careers they love, get more done & simplify their lives”.

Among other services, such as private coaching, Carley also writes a blog where she provides useful “craft tips” in hopes to simplify the lives of overwhelmed moms. The newest tip? How to manage email overwhelm with OtherInbox.

Watch it here:

Thank you Carley for taking the time to make this awesome video. Go Mompreneurs!

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!   

A couple weeks ago, our co-founder Mike Subelsky demonstrated OtherInbox and talked about the new features we are rolling out at SXSW at a really cool event, TECHcocktail DC #4 in Washington, D.C. Mike met several OIB users who had some great things to say about OtherInbox, including one who came up to him at a coffee shop before the event because he saw Mike’s OtherInbox T-shirt.

The crowd was very lively and included several people who had already tried the service and liked it. Everyone seemed excited about Gmail and calendar integration. The TECHcocktail team also interviewed me live on Ustream which was fun. Thanks to Jimmy Gardner, Eric Olson, and Frank Gruber for putting on the event and inviting us to participate!
–Mike

The people at TECH cocktail posted a ton of pictures of the event, caught Mike’s winning smile, and conducted this interview with Mike.

Thank you to Jimmy Gardner for putting together this screencast of OtherInbox including our new Gmail integration.

Tony at AllAboutTheBetas.tv did a great introductory video about OtherInbox. It’s only two and a half minutes long — take a look!

Gregg Pollack filmed me and the other Lone Star Ruby Conference speakers doing 30 second versions of our talks. So if you missed the conference, here’s me using excessive hand gestures to explain why Ruby is so great for cloud computing. The entire hour-long talk is also available with fewer hand gestures.

We’ll be launching to the public at TechCrunch50 on Monday afternoon, September 8. Don’t miss it! Watch this page around 4pm PST (7pm EST) for live, streaming video.