SlideMail App Can Help You Get Through Email Quickly & Effectively

How many emails do you have in your inbox? More to the point, how many of them are sitting there waiting for you to add an event to your calendar before being tucked into a folder or trashed? If the answer is "way too many", a new email app might actually help. Called SlideMail, the app is meant to help bad email actors efficiently sort through their digital mail. With a bit of time, SlideMail actually learns how you react to email, and encourages better habits.

A main feature of SlideMail is scanning the text of your email for things like dates, times, and other phraseology that indicates you'll need to be somewhere, or otherwise not miss an important event.

SlideMail also scopes out things like newsletters so it knows what's maybe not so crucial to you. It can even learn what newsletters may be important to you based on your reading activity.

Over time, SlideMail will find things it thinks you'd archive or trash straight away, and suggest you do as much when opening the app.

SlideMail also finds events you may be invited to and offers to create calendar events. If someone asked you to grab lunch this weekend, SlideMail can identify that, even if it's written in a more natural language (like "let's grab lunch on Saturday at like 1" instead of "will you please have lunch with me on Saturday at 1:00pm at Bob's Burger on 4th?").

The app can even help you find the location of an event on a map.

It's a bit like Google Now's handshake with Gmail, except that it's available for all your email addresses (so long as they're IMAP, Gmail, iCloud, or Yahoo). If you're interested in getting through your inbox faster, grab SlideMail for iPhone in the App Store.

Source: SlideMail

Via: TechCrunch