Mailbox could be the first app to try and fix everything that is wrong with email. Picture: Mailbox Source: Supplied
THE new Mailbox app is attempting to fix email by encouraging users to get their inbox down to zero.
The app syncs with users' Gmail accounts and tells them how many messages (both read and unread) are sitting in their inbox.
If you don't want to read that email straight away you can "swipe" it away, out of your inbox and schedule a time for it to return. Users can select to view it "later today", "this evening", "tomorrow”, "this weekend", "next week", "in a month", "someday" or choose from a selected date.
At the time of your choosing that email will reappear and you can deal with it then.
The point, however, is to deal with your emails straight away, delete the ones you don't need, reply to the ones you do.
Users also have the option to archive or delete messages.
Unfortunately the app only syncs with Gmail accounts (at least for the time being), so those who use Outlook for work emails are stuck using the "old fashioned" way of viewing emails.
Also users will not be able to view emails that are organised into folders or filters in Gmail. Mailbox will only display what is in your inbox.
The app, surprisingly, is only available for iPhone. At least for the time being.
It is available from the app store but you'll have to queue to use it. Once users have downloaded the app they're added to a waiting list (which already has hundreds of thousands of people on it). Once you get to the top of this list you will you get access to the app. The app lets you monitor your place in line. It tells you how many people there are ahead and behind you in the online queue.
As of publication there are more than 814,500 people in line for the app.
It's an interesting marketing move by Mailbox, who is rolling it out gradually but it's likely to annoy some people who see no reason why they shouldn't be able to get instant access to the new app.
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