i never liked reading emails, because most of them are just noise and don’t need your attention; you’d be fine not knowing about them at all.
but you’d only know that after reading them. that’s why we could never really filter the noise out of the inbox until the recent ai advancements in llms.
i also never liked “dealing with an inbox”, the act of going through a long list of letters all competing for your attention, and the hundreds of decisions you need to make to “clean it up”:
- glance at a few words in the subject line of tens, if not hundreds, of emails and decide which one is important enough to prioritize over the others
- once you’ve picked the lucky email that gets your attention and opened it, decide where to even look to figure out what it’s about without getting distracted by the visuals or hooks
- then, after piecing together what it’s about by reading words here and there, decide again: delete? archive? star? label? reply? create a reminder? create a todo? unsubscribe? block? report? mark as unread? 🤯
the email inbox is an obsolete concept that never got an upgrade after the internet became popular, which led to overflowing inboxes and communication overload for anyone with an email account.
if you think about it, we read emails mostly to see if there’s something for us to do. so the inbox is kind of a todo list, and emails are just how tasks get added to it. but the inbox is a horrible todo list right now.
that’s why i built mailover to be a smart todo list, not an inbox. you control who and what can be put on your list. you can teach it to get smarter every day.
i started mailover.ai as an attempt to fix how we interact with emails, by abstracting away the inbox and the emails completely, and putting a secretary in between, so you don’t have to “read emails” and “deal with an inbox.”
the ai secretary reads all your emails, extracts action items, and briefs you on what matters. you get notified only when there’s something that truly needs your attention.
now i don’t read emails anymore. i just check my email briefing each morning. my inbox anxiety is gone, and i’m more productive than ever.
i built this for myself, but i realized millions of people face the same problem.
the inbox is obsolete. the real war is against the noise in our communications, and i’m on a mission to win it.
join me to upgrade the world this way. we deserve better than this.