But those notes are siloed away from the work that you’re doing and the apps you’re using, so it becomes easy to forget about them, and difficult to revisit and take action on those notes later. When you have an idea that you want to jot down as quickly as possible, any friction can feel like an imposition-so, many of us might opt for whatever we perceive as the path of least resistance, whether that’s the built-in notes app on your phone or a physical post-it. This section contains your unread email threads, notes, and triggered reminders. With this perspective in mind, we’ve restructured the inbox: now, the top of the inbox contains the To-do section. “Unread” doesn’t actually mean that an email hasn’t been read - what it means is, “I need to make a decision about what to do with this email at some point in the future.” In other words: an unread email is a to-do! Additionally, the ease with which you can mark something as unread helps mitigate the stress of analysis paralysis if you’re not sure how to deal with an email at a given time, you can mark it as unread, and then come back to it later. People do this for a number of reasons: it’s fast and relatively frictionless to mark something as unread with a single click, and it visually distinguishes emails that require further action from those that do not. One of the most common ways that people use their inbox as a to-do list is by marking important emails as unread. Today, we’re introducing a suite of changes that make it easier to identify important tasks, create new tasks, and hide everything else that might distract you from focusing on what’s important. That’s why we at Twobird have made it our mission to create a better inbox experience: your inbox is a to-do list, and it should be designed like one. Though traditional inbox clients work well for sending messages, they don’t always provide the best possible experience when you want to get a high-level overview of your most important tasks: all emails are treated with the same level of importance by default emails are organized chronologically rather than by importance the experience of creating a quick reminder or note is more cumbersome than it needs to be. And because so much of our work and personal communication is mediated through email messages, our email inboxes also become our mission control centers.Įmail was originally designed as a communication tool - as the name “electronic mail” suggests - but in practice, we also use email to prioritize, delegate, and take action. Over 4 billion people (roughly half the world’s population) use email, and every day email users send over 300 billion messages-so it’s no surprise that most of us end up spending a lot of time in our email inboxes. That’s why we’ve redesigned the inbox to better reflect how people already use email - as an all-in-one to-do list. Every item in your inbox represents some kind of action that you have to take or a decision that you have to make.
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