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Sort my inbox so I only see what matters

Four hundred unread, and six of them matter. This job is about surfacing the six and dealing with the rest without you reading them.

What a good result looks like

Use this to judge a demo. A tool that cannot do these is not doing the job, whatever it is called.

  • It learns what you actually open, rather than what it thinks is important.
  • It summarises long threads so you can catch up in a sentence.
  • It drafts routine replies for you to send or bin.
  • Nothing is deleted or hidden without a way to find it again.

What usually goes wrong

The things people find out after they have paid.

  • Anything that sorts your mail has to read all of your mail. Decide whether you are comfortable with that before you connect it.
  • An aggressive filter that buries one real customer enquiry has cost you more than the subscription saves.
  • Check what happens to your mail if you stop paying.

3 tools that do this

How this list is ordered — and why money is not one of the reasons
  1. 1. How squarely the tool does this job. A tool built for this job comes before one that can be made to do it. A tool that needs wiring up comes last.
  2. 2. How much we actually know about it. A tool we have used ourselves comes before one we have only researched, which comes before one only a reader has written in about, which comes before one nobody has assessed. A tool low on this list is not bad. It is unknown.
  3. 3. How technical you need to be. Where the first two signals tie, the one a non-technical person can set up alone comes first. This site is for people who are not going to write code.
  4. 4. How recently we checked the listing. A listing we checked last month is worth more to you than one we checked last year, so it breaks the remaining ties. Listings we have never checked come last.

Nothing commercial appears on that list, and nothing commercial is given to the code that orders it. How we make money, and how you can check.

  1. Superhuman

    by Superhuman (Grammarly)

    Splitting the six that matter from the four hundred that do not is the thing it is built around.

    Built for thisListed, not reviewedNo setup help needed

  2. Microsoft 365 Copilot

    by Microsoft

    Summarises threads and drafts replies inside Outlook, where your mail already is.

    Does this wellListed, not reviewedNo setup help needed

  3. Gemini

    by Google

    Summarises and drafts inside Gmail, but it does not triage for you on its own.

    Can, once set upListed, not reviewedNo setup help neededFree tier to try it

Reviews against this job

Listed, not reviewedIt is in the directory. Nobody here has assessed it yet.

Nobody here has assessed any of these tools against this job yet. The listings above describe what each one is sold to do and how squarely it fits — which is real information — but none of it is a verdict, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Used one of these for this job? Tell us what happened — reader reports are published as reader reports, in your words, clearly labelled.

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