My husband recommended this company because I received an overwhelming amount of emails each day that took away valuable time to focus on what was important. I signed on many years back and keep renewing. Time is precious as is my sanity and this application has performed as promised. I honestly only receive a few/handful of critical emails a day, and it's such a relief. I still hear colleagues talk about overwhelming email despite all of the filters built in to their providers service. I always recommend Sanebox. Even the new junk emails go to junk without me saying so, the filtering is really good. I review it occasionally and tag/move to a more important folder on something I want to pay more attention to in the future. The app "remembers" it and funnels it to a different folder I specify. I've been using this service a long time, so I'm just used to it and take it for granted. On my downtime, I review the @sanelater emails and @sanenewsletter emails to make sure important items aren't missed (because they are new). It's a click to train my inbox to recognize it's important. At the end if the day, I feel in control of my email and not the other way around. Saves me so much time and frustration/distraction weeding through emails. I also feel confident I’m not going to miss important emails. It saves me hours/stress per week. Great value. There are many other features I'm not currently using... know there is so much I could be benefitting from!
There really isn't anything I dislike...
I save many hours each week with this filtering software. I'm more efficient because I can focus on the important stuff first- and not miss the important stuff. If a new email arrives in a box I'd prefer it not too, I can easily train it to the correct one. I also like the nudge feature that reminds me to follow up if someone has not responded to my email in a timely fashion.
I've got 99 problems, but email ain't one! I have 3 Google accounts and Sanebox manages all of them. It cleans my inbox and allows me to focus on what matters. I never feel overwhelmed by email. It's great how Sanbox learns my habits and how I sort things. When I look at other people's email, I realize how grateful I am that there's a Sanebox in this world! I also love the Blackbox feature. It allows me to trash spammy emails without ever opening them. Which means I get less spam overall.
The daily summary design isn't visually appealing. I tend to gloss over it, in fact, it doesn't add much value. The user interface inside the app could be prettier, but I rarely go into anyways. All the value of Sanebox is the fact that my inbox is 100% under control with zero effort.
Too many emails come in every day. But I never have to sort through them. Sanebox does that automatically. So I only look at newsletters when I have time. My work communication is rarely interrupted by distractions.
It works as a charm. I don't get much notifications about email that I don't need right now
Price point. Service costs $169 for two years.
Email notifications overhaul.
Sanebox allows you to schedule emails into the future. Not only does this impact your work-life balance but has ramification for the entire organization.
The pricing structure can get unwieldy. There are a lot of features, and a revenue model for all companies needs to work. Sanebox charges by the number of features you use into various tiers. While this works, it gets confusing to understand.
As we know, many solutions have attempted to replace the Inbox, transform the Inbox, or get rid of it all together. Since that fateful day, the SMTP standard was created, none have succeeded, and the Inbox lives on. SaneBox, well, brings sanity to that Inbox. Give you control over all aspects. From emails you send that are responded to, emails that don't need to be reviewed as an emergency to scheduling emails in the future to a time that the recipient will more likely read your email or from an essential work-life balance perspective, not send an email at 1 am.
SaneBox saves me literally HOURS of time each week. When I would see email after unwanted email, it stressed me out and distracted me from important work. The time it would take to go in and unsubscribe from each one was overwhelming, so I didn't bother. When SaneBox took over, it automatically got the clutter out of my way and removed that overwhelming feeling almost instantly. Now, my email time is spent on only essential emails and the season of flipping through unwanted emails is a think of the past.
Since SaneBox is a powerhouse for getting unwanted emails out of your way. If you're not careful, it is possible to miss an email you don't want to miss. You need to check your folders regularly to make sure a wanted email doesn't inadvertently get tucked away.
Spending hours on email detracts from my time to do the most important work. Just knowing that I have a full email box is a distraction in and of itself. I would frequently just ignore emails and put off going through the inbox which only compounded the problem and the stress. Now that problem has been resolved. My inbox is in control. i no longer have that overwhelmed feeling and I have no need to procrastinate going through my inbox. i have become significantly more efficient and have more time to spend on serious work.
Not only do I foremost value the Sanebox feature of emailing a reminder, either in 1 minute or in 1 year, but I know my friends do to. I use that functionality at least two or three times a day, to remind myself to call someone, update a form or send a birthday or anniversary greeting. I find it saves me time to quickly jet off an email so in a calmer moment I can tend to details in my professional and personal lives.
I find the emails that say, "You saved x hours this week" to be a bit inaccurate, because no way do I read all those emails that arrive, from which they must calculate a time estimate. And occasionally the filter fritzes out and I have to "remind" the intelligence to funnel certain emails to a more logical box, but those wee annoyances are nothing compared to how Sanebox saves my sanity.
Sanebox not only saves time by filtering emails into my customized folders, but it for sure has saved me from embarrassment or countless instances where I might otherwise have dropped the ball. I actually value it a bit more than my password service, now that browsers do better are remembering for me.
My inbox was so out of control I often gave up. Sanebox has freed up so much time that I feel like a commercial i would not even believe. But it's true. If you spend time up front training it, and then a small amount as you go, you will still save hours a week! And I feel so much better.
I like everything about it. Everything works beautifully. It would be nice to be able to more selectively choose emails that need replies.
It allows me to trash the trash and focus on what matters. I was getting so many new spam emails a day, the unsubscribe options the spam provided never worked, and sanebox solves these problems for me.
The sense of focus on what is essential.
Occasionally 'losing' new sender emails.
I have my own business and am using SaneBox to manage both business and household emails (4 email addresses). I was feeling enslaved to the inbox, even with attempts to manage it using classic calendar techniques (at scheduled times, respond to, delete, or create calendar entries for all new inbox emails). With SaneBox, I may be looking at my inbox a bit more often, simply because that review is so quick (SaneBox has cleaned out 95% of my inbox). And now I use my once-a-day scheduled time to review the SaneBox summary of "unnecessary" emails. This also goes relatively quickly. I no longer have the feeling that I may be missing something in the tsunami of email. I don't have objective numbers (though SaneBox regularly sends estimates of time saved), but my internal email stress meter has gone from pegged to zen. It does take a little while to see the full benefits as you initially spend some time training SaneBox. I set up some additional folders over and above the built-in set of SaneBox folder (i.e. "Promos" - that I occasionally look at), so I really only see what I want to see when I want to see it (or can ignore what is not important). There are "snooze" features that I use occasionally (such as when waiting for someone's update) but for the most part, I deal with my *important* email in realtime I see and deal with that which is truly important, and at my leisure deal with, or ignore, everything else. Bliss.