Earlier today, Orchestra Inc’s new productivity app, Mailbox, landed in the App Store and reservation requests started rolling out to people who have been (digitally) standing in line to get their download and activation.
Mailbox is an email client for iPhone that integrates task management for a truly unique and refreshing approach to managing your Google Gmail email account and the tasks that need to be taken care of as a result of the email.
Orchestra describes Mailbox this way:
“It’s how email on the phone should work: Mailbox checks your email from the cloud and delivers it to your phone with lightning-fast speed. A colorful swipe-based UI makes processing a delight. And unique “snooze buttons” let you put off messages until later.
Mailbox makes getting to zero—and staying there—a breeze. After you experience a clean inbox, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.”
Mailbox will work like you would expect an iOS mail client with a threaded message view that looks clean and easy to read. The neat twist comes in when you are in the inbox view where you can swipe messages left to right to mark that message as “done”. Additionally, you can manage messages in your inbox like a to-do list and “tag” messages as tasks to be followed up on later that day, later that evening, tomorrow, someday (my favorite), a date you specific, etc. Want to see Mailbox in action? Hit up the video at the end of this post.
This really does seem like a cool way to approach your mailbox, especially if you are a “Getting Things Done” kind of person.
Mailbox is a free application today. The plan is to keep the app free and in the future there will be paid set of premium features that you will be able to upgrade to.
While the app is free to download today, according to Orchestra, clients will be rolled out based on a first come, first served reservation system. As of about 5:30pm eastern time today, I was 134,171 in line. There was another 215,781 in the queue behind me.
For more information on Mailbox, head over to the
Mailbox website. If you are ready to download Mailbox, and reserve your spot in line, head over to the
App Store.
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