If you look around the Boomerang office, you might see any of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Edge on our screens. Like fine wines or cheeses, people have strong, personal preferences for certain web browsers. Google-philes love the ease of Chrome syncing with their accounts, open-source and privacy enthusiasts back Firefox, and Opera users are quick to point out that they had tabbed browsing first. Windows users take pride in...
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Hello! We wanted to let you know about three exciting new products that we’ve just launched: First, a work-focused AI voice assistant that actually helps you get stuff done. It can summarize and extract tasks from your important emails and reschedule meetings. It can find the exact message you need from eight months ago, delete all the marketing email you got yesterday, and even help you find and set aside exactly the amount of...
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Imagine you saw an ad for “one weird email trick” that could help you feel less stressed and get more done, while still responding to messages just as quickly. You’d probably think it was a scam. But new research shows there is in fact one weird email trick that has all these benefits, and the idea is startlingly simple. Just turn off email notifications, check email three or four times a day, and don’t look at...
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A few months back, we announced a new and improved version of Inbox Pause, our extension that helps users manage their inbox and email more purrductively. We got a lot of great feedback, but for a few people who misheard our announcement, Inbox Pause was barking up the wrong tree. It’s not that Inbox Pause had any shortcomings, it’s just that a few of our users were hoping the plugin would fulfill a different pawpose. We wanted to...
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Update: Inbox Pause has graduated, and is now a feature within Boomerang for Gmail and Boomerang for Outlook. Learn more here! As the holiday season approached, the Boomerang (Inbox Pause) team worked secretly on a gift for all of our Inbox Pause users. Today, we’re proud to unveil it. A substantial update to Inbox Pause is immediately available that makes the plugin faster, more reliable, and easier than ever to use. Try the New...
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Opera has long pioneered browser features that become industry standard, such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and private browsing. Similarly, we at Boomerang have seen our email innovations widely adopted. (We brought snoozing to Gmail before it was called snoozing!) Both Opera and Boomerang boost user productivity, so it’s only logical that the two should work together. Today they do. We are excited to announce that the full...
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