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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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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This is a guest post from Boomerang customer and professional photographer, Greg Goodman. Boomerang Beginnings We all know Boomerang is an incredibly useful email tool. What you may not know is how awesome the Boomerang team is! Last December, I had the fortune of photographing Boomerang’s holiday party. As a regular user of the app, I felt like a fanboy while getting to know the kind, down-to-earth, funny and inspirational group of...
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The average email user receives 147 emails every day and spends over 2 ½ hours a day on email. Unfortunately, most of us have a hard time keeping up. In a recent episode of his new podcast StartUp, Alex Blumberg, producer for This American Life and co-founder of Planet Money, admitted to having over 78,934 unread emails in his inbox! And he’s not alone. Most people have piles of emails in their inbox (including, but not limited to,...
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Don’t you wish there was a class in high school or college called “Life 101”? In an ideal world, the curriculum would include topics such as: The Technical Terminology of BS-ing About Wine and Cheese How to Watch an Entire Season of a TV Show in Two Hours Creating the Perfect Instagram Hashtag for Every Social Outing When Am I Allowed to Whine?: A Guide to Asking Your Parents for Help After You’ve Declared That You’re An Adult Who Can...
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