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by rShergold 1658 days ago
My fundamental problem with email is all the robots.

I need a tool that sorts all my email into two boxes. "Robots" and "Humans".

Further I want repeated notifications about a message if: - It comes from a human - It was sent only to me - I have previously emailed this person

In [current year] my email account is like my post box on my home. I need it because I get important documents sent to me by robots (bills) but it just piles up until I know there is something in there that I need.

If a human were to send me a letter it would easily get lost.

Every email productivity tool targets the market of people who use email a lot. For most of us direct messaging has replaced email. However when an actual human does email us it tends to be very important. Something we don't want to miss. There is no tool I know of to solve this.

1 comments

Thank you for your comment. Scailer is an application that is created to solve exactly the same problem you are saying about. Scailer distinguishes human emails from Robot emails but at the same time displays some categories of emails from robots as important (bills, urgent notifications, etc)