Say hello to the future of e-mail!

I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered this e-mail app which has managed to change my mind that e-mail should (along with most snail mail) be relegated to the dust-bins of history and all within a mere 24 hour period.

Now I love Slack and apps like it (Hipchat), but Unibox truly revives and renews what e-mail can be. What happened in those 24 hours? Here’s my story...

I started off with the free iPhone version of Unibox and within 10-15 minutes, had completely cleaned up my primary personal Gmail account. The interface was beautiful along with the fluid swiping interactions. I was hooked. The super power move feature for me is the ability to swipe all e-mails from a particular sender (newsletter, junk mail, phone service provided, etc) - appearing as a single line item in your Unibox inbox - and send them all to “archive”, “trash” or “junk” in the blink of an eye (I tend to send the personal to archive and junk to junk or trash).

I proceeded to buy the pro-iPhone app and add my other two Gmail accounts to the app. Another 20 minutes or so and these were also cleaned up leaving only a few actionable e-mails in the one-stop Unibox inbox. NOTE: I’m using the app with the zero inbox mode/approach here.

Finally, I decided I loved the experience enough to get it on my mac as well. And then I did the crazy thing…

I took the leap and added the pre-gmail e-mail address I’ve had since high school (since 1998!) to my Unibox along with it’s 100’s if not a couple thousand e-mails in the inbox going back to at least 2008 (7 years worth of e-mails!).

Within another hour or two, I archived/deleted/junked ALL 7-years worth of e-mails there (100’s to 1000’s of e-mails) and managed to unsubscribe from 20 or so newsletters in the process.

I went to bed with my Unibox inbox, which shows the inbox content of all four of my e-mail address (2 personal, 2 business) has a mere total of 8 items in it, all actionable! It’s pretty friggin beautiful if you know what I mean.

Simply put, I love this app and enthusiastically can’t wait to get my friends and family using it to escape the e-mail as it’s always been catastrophe.

Unibox demonstrates the future of e-mail at it’s best. Period.

DJ Wilkins about Unibox