This Email Setup is the Fastest Way to Manage Your Inbox

Is email slowing you down? Do you wish you could spend a lot less time in your inbox? With these 2 apps, you can dramatically speed up your email and keep your messages private from marketers. Let Scott Friesen show you how to combine the powers of Fastmail and SaneBox.

Video Transcript

Do you want a faster way to manage all of your email and spend less time in your inbox? In this video, I'm going to show you how to combine two email apps so you can deal with email at lightning speed. So today we're going to take a quick look at something called Fastmail, something that is not only lightning fast, but also adds privacy to your email so you don't have to share your details, your information, with big time marketers such as Google and Microsoft. Here I am within my fastmail.com account and maybe nothing special. It looks like an email account. I can easily read everything here. I've got my search bar at the top, and I've got my folders in different sections down below. But as I click on my different sections and my different folders, you'll notice something different. It is lightning fast. And here within my inbox, I'm not only viewing just my first 50 or first 100 emails, no, it's loading nearly 300 emails. Even as I go between my pinned, my VIPs, and my all mail, it's not wasting time loading these messages. And if I click on this message and start to scroll through, if I want to go and reply to this message, it is also lightning fast. I'm not waiting for dialogues to pop open. I'm not waiting for things to send. So it truly is a very fast, a very quick experience. but there's a number of other things which you may benefit from by using Fastmail. Here on the right hand side, we too have a sidebar. So we've got access to our calendar. I actually like the display of the calendar here within Fastmail, which to me feels a lot easier to read, a lot more easier to manage when it comes to looking at these events and seeing their details. I also like that I have full access to all of my contacts here on the right hand side. But it doesn't stop with just a side window. Here in the top left hand corner of the screen we can go directly to our contacts or our calendar without opening up a new tab. So if I go to my contacts, I want to go directly to this contact and pull that information, or I want to go directly and create a new contact. If I want to go to my calendar, again, lightning fast without having to add unnecessary tabs at the top of the screen. And for those of you which may be familiar with other Simpletivity demos, you may notice that this is actually my Google calendar. And yes, if we go back to our mail, this is actually my Gmail email as well. It is super easy to sync your existing email provider, including Gmail and Google Calendar, so you can access all of your messages and all of your events in a faster environment. But let's not forget the other bonus of using FastMail, and that is your privacy. If you are using Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo, your information is being shared with advertising agencies and big marketing companies. That means that they can read the details of your messages and use that to market ads and information to you. But with Fastmail, your messages are completely your own so they are hidden from sharing it with others. But of course, getting through your email has a lot more to do than just clicking and loading things fast, we also want to make sure that we can get rid of all of that junk and hide things to work at a more opportune time. And for that, we're also taking advantage of using SaneBox. Here on the left hand side of the screen, you will notice that I have several sane specific folders, meaning they all start with this at sane. Because I've combined SaneBox with my Fastmail account, I have an opportunity to teach what is important, what is not, or what I would like to work on a little later in the future. So for example, here is a sane black hole. Maybe I want to stop receiving these reminders. All I need to do is drag that over into the black hole, and I will no longer receive those reminders from that messenger. I didn't even have to open up that message and hit the unsubscribe button or create some other filter or rule, I can simply drag it over. Maybe I want to deal with this security alert a little later today and this email as well, no problem. I can go back and work on these messages later. And perhaps I don't want to see a particular message until next week or even next month. Nothing is faster than simply dragging things over here to a folder on the left hand side. It saves me time from opening up the message itself, and I always know where to go when I want to go and review that message. So if you want to spend less time in your inbox, go to fastmail.com and sanebox.com or click the links in the description down below. Thank you so much for watching today's video. And remember, being productive does not need to be difficult. In fact, it's very simple.