[Sponsor] SaneBox -- faster and less anoying email

Thank you to SaneBox for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. In the past, I've written extensively about how SaneBox works. In short, you keep using your current email service just like you always have, but SaneBox analyzes the headers of your emails (things like who it is from, who it was sent to, and the subject line) without looking at the body of the email at all. Based on its analysis of the headers, SaneBox moves some of the emails from your main Inbox to another folder.

The end result is that SaneBox lets you avoid the distraction of dozens of non-essential emails in your Inbox. Instead, your Inbox just contains the few messages that really matter, the ones that you want to know about and/or need to act upon. When you have more time, you can click the sub-folder in your Inbox into which SaneBox stores items like email newsletters—things that you want to see at some point, but there is no urgency to read them right away. Or you can click the sub-folder in your Inbox into which SaneBox filters items to be read later—for me, these items are mostly junk messages that were not caught by my email's built-in spam filter. For unwanted items, you can drag them over into your SaneBlackHole folder, which is a way for you to teach SaneBox's brain that you never want to see items from that sender ever again.

SaneBox offers much more than what I've just described. For example, it can remind you when you haven't received a response to an email, and it can filter emails in countless other ways. But those core features make the process of reading your email so much faster and so much less annoying.

I've been paying for and using SaneBox for two years now, and it is great. For my iPhone J.D. emails, when I look at the Inbox I can quickly focus on the messages that matter the most to me, such as a reader sending in a suggestion with a news story for my Friday In the News post or interactions with someone who matters to me. From time to time, I look at the other folders used by SaneBox and I can quickly deal with those emails, but they are virtually always the email that don't really matter to me. For my Gmail account, SaneBox has been a lifesaver. I use Gmail when I make purchases from websites, stores, services, etc., and as a result there is so much in there that I don't really care about. But I don't want to miss my Gmail emails that do matter. Before I started using SaneBox, I would open up Gmail and see over a hundred messages, most of which didn't really matter to me. Now, I often see less than 10 messages in my Inbox. Every few days, I'll take the time to look at the folders used by SaneBox, and I can easily read the stuff that I want to see or quickly delete all of the ones that I don't care about. It has made such a huge difference to me, and it saves me so much time.

If you want to try out SaneBox to see what a huge difference it can make in your life, click here to get a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. If you don't like having a clean and tidy Inbox and want to go back to how you had it before, no sweat. But if you appreciate having a better way of working with email, using the link in this post will give you a generous $25 credit for when you pick a plan—and there are lots of different plans offered so that you can pick the one that gives you just what you want.

Thanks again to SaneBox for giving me and you a more efficient way to work with email and for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month.

Thank you to SaneBox for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. In the past, I've written extensively about how SaneBox works. In short, you keep using your current email service just like you always have, but SaneBox analyzes the headers of your emails (things like who it is from, who it was sent to, and the subject line) without looking at the body of the email at all. Based on its analysis of the headers, SaneBox moves some of the emails from your main Inbox to another folder.

The end result is that SaneBox lets you avoid the distraction of dozens of non-essential emails in your Inbox. Instead, your Inbox just contains the few messages that really matter, the ones that you want to know about and/or need to act upon. When you have more time, you can click the sub-folder in your Inbox into which SaneBox stores items like email newsletters—things that you want to see at some point, but there is no urgency to read them right away. Or you can click the sub-folder in your Inbox into which SaneBox filters items to be read later—for me, these items are mostly junk messages that were not caught by my email's built-in spam filter. For unwanted items, you can drag them over into your SaneBlackHole folder, which is a way for you to teach SaneBox's brain that you never want to see items from that sender ever again.

SaneBox offers much more than what I've just described. For example, it can remind you when you haven't received a response to an email, and it can filter emails in countless other ways. But those core features make the process of reading your email so much faster and so much less annoying.

I've been paying for and using SaneBox for two years now, and it is great. For my iPhone J.D. emails, when I look at the Inbox I can quickly focus on the messages that matter the most to me, such as a reader sending in a suggestion with a news story for my Friday In the News post or interactions with someone who matters to me. From time to time, I look at the other folders used by SaneBox and I can quickly deal with those emails, but they are virtually always the email that don't really matter to me. For my Gmail account, SaneBox has been a lifesaver. I use Gmail when I make purchases from websites, stores, services, etc., and as a result there is so much in there that I don't really care about. But I don't want to miss my Gmail emails that do matter. Before I started using SaneBox, I would open up Gmail and see over a hundred messages, most of which didn't really matter to me. Now, I often see less than 10 messages in my Inbox. Every few days, I'll take the time to look at the folders used by SaneBox, and I can easily read the stuff that I want to see or quickly delete all of the ones that I don't care about. It has made such a huge difference to me, and it saves me so much time.

If you want to try out SaneBox to see what a huge difference it can make in your life, click here to get a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. If you don't like having a clean and tidy Inbox and want to go back to how you had it before, no sweat. But if you appreciate having a better way of working with email, using the link in this post will give you a generous $25 credit for when you pick a plan—and there are lots of different plans offered so that you can pick the one that gives you just what you want.

Thanks again to SaneBox for giving me and you a more efficient way to work with email and for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month.