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.
There are two primary features I use: 1) filtering, and 2) scheduling. Both are game-changers for me. Filtering: I get a lot of emails. What's great is you can teach it to move newsletters and other low-priority items to separate folders. Saves me a lot of time as my inbox is relatively clean with high-priority items. I also love the "blackhole." You can program the system to move emails received from certain senders into a separate folder that I never check. It's a fast way to unsubscribe from a newsletter or never hear from a spammy marketer again. Scheduling: As helpful as filtering is, the scheduling is the one I can't live without. When I am not ready to work on an email right away, I can flag it in a way that it is resent to me whenever I want it. Maybe it is a client I need to follow-up in 6 months. Maybe it is something I want to do around the house (e.g., changing my HVAC filter every three months). And I often think of things I want to do the next day, so I will set it to send the email to me the next morning. Nothing falls through the cracks now!
I can't think of anything I don't like. It does exactly what I want it to do. It is super easy. And the price is reasonable. I like that it runs on the server, so there is no software to install. It works perfectly with my gmail account.
It saves me time. But more importantly, it helps ensure that I don't drop the ball with anything I need to do. I just set it to send me a reminder on a specific date.
Very short learning curve, uses tools and features already built-in to my email (folders, forwarding, BCC, etc.), and works anywhere I already check email. I don't need to install special software and I can use the same tools across all my accounts. I get to inbox zero at least weekly, if not daily, and I only have to look at messages when I need to. Training is great and doesn't try to overthink anything. I don't have to create rules—just move messages to folders.
I wish it cost a bit less for the unlimited plans. I use six different email accounts for different companies / contracts, and being able to have full access to all the features would be great. While the feature set does what I want it to, it would be nice to see more new features come to the service. I love the iOS app, and wish it was a bit more customizable and responsive.
I receive too many emails, and services that try to guess how to filter my messages (like Gmail) do so poorly and unpredictably. I save hours a week, and can triage through and respond to emails with far more efficiency at the times of day I want to look at them.
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.
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.
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 have used Sane Box for the past few years. Each day I get approximately 100 non-business related emails ranging from Spam to less important personal correspondence. The Sane Later collects these emails for later review. If an important email is filed in the Sane Later folder, I just drag it into my primary in box, and Sane Later is trained that all future emails from that source are to be treated as important. Because the Sane Later emails are not interspersed with my business emails, it is extremely quick and easy to delete those I do not wish to read. I can easily get rid of 100 unwanted emails in less than 15 seconds. The Sane Later function alone is worth the price of admission. Highly recommend.
No complaints with the product. But G2 required me to type more to accept my review.
Spam and less important email.
A few years ago, I was getting so much spam and junk mail, I ended up making a new email address for myself. My inbox was polluted with so much "non-essential" email that I could not find the important emails which needed to be acted upon. My new email address solved my issue for about six months. Then the new email address began to be filled with junk and spam email as well. Enter SaneBox. With its slick and easy organization and setup, I quickly divided up my email into various @Sane boxes, including BULK, NEWS, LATER, etc. Voila! Problem solved! SaneBox auto-magically categorizes my email! My important mail remains in my inbox. All my other mail is moved into one of the other @Sane boxes for viewing when I have time. Once or twice a day, I simply take a few minutes and deal with my other @Sane boxes. Quick and simple, I'm able to (mostly) rid myself of the junk emails. And the @SaneBlackHole...how much fun it is to CONDEMN some junk mail into the Black Hole.
There is nothing to dislike. It is simple to set up and use.
I can't even tell you how many hours SaneBox saves me a week, but I would guess at least 5 or 6 out of 40. But BETTER than that is the fact I am able to concentrate on the emails that COUNT, rather than being constantly distracted with the junk and spam mail. This includes "newsletters" - something I would like to read, but don't have time right now. And that is where the @SaneTomorrow or Next Week boxes can help out. I've been a customer for over two years, and just renewed for another year. It is money well-spent. I figure at my bill rate, I save over $40,000 per year in wasted time. A very small price to pay to rid myself of the insanity caused by my inbox.