Does your inbox feel like your first line of defence against incoming tasks? ActiveInbox is here to help, working entirely within Gmail (using Gmail labels for organization), and without requiring you to change too many habits… It gets emails out of your inbox and into your donebox.



Clear your inbox and never forget a task in email

With just a clever application of Gmail labels, you can stop important tasks and conversations sinking into the swamp of your inbox.

Give it a Status to guarantee it gets completed

For example, if you're waiting for someone to reply, click 'Waiting On' (which will add the Waiting On status label), archive it and let the Review Bar effortlessly track your bottlenecks until they're overcome.

Bring it back on time with a deadline

Put a deadline on your emails to impress contacts with timely responses, or just 'snooze' the email and relax until something actually needs doing.



See your work, not your email

Email is terrible at showing you the bigger picture of your daily work.

Organize emails into Project folders

Instead of chasing 10 jumbled little emails about the same job, keep them into a Project folder so you can focus on one thing at a time.

For example, our own Gmail is just a collection of 'things' (such as ideas under discussion and features being built) that have surfaced and are being moved towards our goals.

(Behind the scenes, Project folders are just Gmail labels with a special prefix - by default, P/ - that ActiveInbox understands, and uses to give you new features for managing your Projects.)

Store Notes about emails

Use Notes to store next actions for a conversation, private thoughts, links to relevant information or links to where you exported it to.



Get email out of Gmail & into your other services

Is your email actually an event? Get it out of Gmail and into a more specialized system like GCal where it can be managed much more smartly.



Guarantee Everything Gets Done

The secret to ensuring all tasks get completed is having an intuitive and constant visual overview of every active item on your radar.





And... Glide Through Gmail Faster

  • Empty your inbox with a single click to archive/delete/spam and move next.

  • Use 'Send, Archive & Move Next' to fire off a reply, get the email out of your inbox and move onto the next one in a single click.

  • Batch process related emails - e.g. everything for a project, or all things you're waiting on Bob to do - so you can go through them without constantly having to context switch your mind.

  • Pin projects to the Review Bar so you can stay focused on what you're working on today.



Talk to us!

ActiveInbox is far from finished. We've been refining it since 2006 and will continue to do so for as long as you need us.

We always recommend our Forum (http://www.getsatisfaction.com/activeinbox) as it lets everyone pile in with their thoughts on your idea, but you can also drop us an email to support@activeinboxhq.com.

We're a tiny team and when you talk to us you'll be speaking to Andy (andym@activeinboxhq.com) or Lisa.