Ever wonder how many important emails you receive, are buried and lost in your inbox?
Corporate systems, social media channels, blogs and group memberships and many other such platforms are using emails for sending transactional, informational and most often, not so relevant information into our inboxes. Use of emails and other collaboration tools are meant to boost productivity and not slow us down. However when it comes to bringing information back from these emails it becomes increasingly difficult to get to the right information quickly and act on it.
It would be nice to have an inbox where information is already sorted and categorized and we can simply work through our day, staying within that inbox.
We have developed an inbox analyzer tool to identify patterns of conversations and trends in our emails. As a part of this analysis, we want to find out some key things from our inboxes -
Corporate systems, social media channels, blogs and group memberships and many other such platforms are using emails for sending transactional, informational and most often, not so relevant information into our inboxes. Use of emails and other collaboration tools are meant to boost productivity and not slow us down. However when it comes to bringing information back from these emails it becomes increasingly difficult to get to the right information quickly and act on it.
It would be nice to have an inbox where information is already sorted and categorized and we can simply work through our day, staying within that inbox.
We have developed an inbox analyzer tool to identify patterns of conversations and trends in our emails. As a part of this analysis, we want to find out some key things from our inboxes -
- Identify trends - Find out top senders and top conversations
- Sort and Tag - Pick out important senders and conversations
- Standardize - Convert email based processes into structured ones
In this blog we will look at how to identify trends and analyze our inbox.
In the consumer version of the analyzer - Gmail Analyzer, you can login to your gmail or google apps accounts and view the reports of your top senders, up-to the past six months. This tool does not store any information and simply analyzes your inbox. You can also see a break down of the size of emails you have received from these senders.
You can view your own inbox report by going - here
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In part two of this blog we will look at how to use the Inbox Analyzer to sort and tag emails so you can automatically categories your emails for bills, invoices, receipts etc. in a more efficient way.