Why Deadline Emails?

1. Know what to focus on today

   In the morning (or as a last action at the end of the day before), you can choose what emails must be done for the day. As well as ensuring that nothing critical is forgotten, it gives you the satisfaction of "finishing all emails for the day".

2. Meet expectations by hitting deadlines

   If a contact expects a response by a given day, e.g. to create a presentation before a meeting, set the deadline so that you do not miss it.

3. Save your time and postpone

   Push the email back to a later date, or a future week, when you want to deal with the email again.

How to Deadline Emails

Specify the Day to Deadline It

With ActiveInbox Plus, you can choose to deadline an email Today, or postpone it until Tomorrow or a future date.

Monitor in the ActiveInbox Review Bar

It will then appear in the ActiveInbox Review Bar on the day it is due.

FAQs

How do Deadlines work with ActiveInbox?

ActiveInbox uses labels (derived from 43 Folders) to represent a day and month; then applies its magic to make it a seamless experience. This method ensures that even if you're using Gmail on a mobile device (away from ActiveInbox), you can still pull up Today labels.

When would you use deadlines?

• For example, if a colleague is flying into town in a month and you are picking them up, you can set the email to return to your attention a day before they arrive. This gives you quick access to all the details you discussed, and reminds you to touch base and check everything is going ahead as expected.
• Or if you are a freelancer, and have arranged to follow up with a client in 2 weeks time, ActiveInbox will return the conversation to your attention to remind you to take action.

Tips

For proper events, move them to your calendar

ActiveInbox enables you to schedule the emails themselves, but if them email is about an upcoming even - something with a date, time & duration - it is best moved out of email and onto your calendar. When you do this, it is a good idea to include in the event description a link back to your original email (in Gmail), so you can primarily work from your calendar and look up the associated discussion if you need to.