The Best Web-Apps for Gmail
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size business – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.
Let’s now look at some useful web apps that will help improve your Gmail experience. They should also work with your Google Apps for Gmail accounts.
1. Other Inbox –
This is perhaps the easiest way to cleanup your GMail Inbox.
Other Inbox scan your mailbox for unimportant emails and automatically sorts them into relevant folders. For instance, news alerts from CNN would go into the News folder while emails from Amazon or iTunes will be labeled as Shopping.
2. Unsubscribe.me –
This adds a little “unsubscribe” button to your Gmail Inbox allowing you to unsubscribe from mailing lists and unwanted newsletters with the click of a button.
It won’t move any future messages from that sender to the trash, it just gets the sender to stop sending you any more emails.
3. FindBigmail.com –
When you are running out of space on Gmail, use this service to find the largest emails in your account and delete /download them to recover some space.
FindBigMail connects to Gmail via IMAP and retrieves only the sizes and not the full content of the email messages. It uses a temporary token and therefore won’t have access to your Gmail account forever.
4. Rapportive.com –
If you get an email from an unfamiliar person, you don’t have to use Google to know more about him or her as Rapportive will bring all that information right inside your Gmail inbox.
Rapportive takes the email address of the sender and builds a profile based on all the other social networks – like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. – where that person may have a presence.
5. AwayFind.com –
You are on a vacation but still have to check emails just because you don’t want to miss any of the “urgent” messages from your important clients?
With AwayFind, you can easily create alerts for important emails and get notified via phone calls or text messages without having to constantly check your mailbox.
6. Email Oracle –
This adds tracking to your outgoing Gmail messages so you’ll know if a particular message has been read by the recipient or not.
It does this by adding a tracking image to your messages and therefore the read receipts will only arrive if the recipient has allowed downloading of web images in her email client.
7. eTacts.com –
This is much like the previously mentioned Rapportive service but with some additional features.
First, you get a list of all your recent interactions with a person as soon as you open his or her message. Second, you can set how frequently you would like to stay in touch with a person and, if you don’t exchange emails for long, eTacts will send you an automatic reminder.
8. Hotmail.com –
How do you access your older emails when the main Gmail service is down and you don’t have an offline backup?
It is therefore recommended that you use a non-Gmail service to backup your Gmail messages and Hotmail perfectly fits the bill here. This archive should also come handy incase your Gmail gets hacked.
9. TripIt –
The service will scan your email inbox multiple times a day for any travel plans and automatically imports them to your TripIt itineraries without you having to forward any email message to TripIt.
If you already have an existing trip with overlapping dates, TripIt will add the plan to your trip else it will create a new trip.
10. Boomerang –
With Boomerang for Gmail, you can compose an email now and schedule it to be sent a later time. Thus you can easily schedule birthday notes when you have time to write them and have Boomerang dispatch them at the right time.
Regards,
Let’s now look at some useful web apps that will help improve your Gmail experience. They should also work with your Google Apps for Gmail accounts.
1. Other Inbox –
This is perhaps the easiest way to cleanup your GMail Inbox.
Other Inbox scan your mailbox for unimportant emails and automatically sorts them into relevant folders. For instance, news alerts from CNN would go into the News folder while emails from Amazon or iTunes will be labeled as Shopping.
2. Unsubscribe.me –
This adds a little “unsubscribe” button to your Gmail Inbox allowing you to unsubscribe from mailing lists and unwanted newsletters with the click of a button.
It won’t move any future messages from that sender to the trash, it just gets the sender to stop sending you any more emails.
3. FindBigmail.com –
When you are running out of space on Gmail, use this service to find the largest emails in your account and delete /download them to recover some space.
FindBigMail connects to Gmail via IMAP and retrieves only the sizes and not the full content of the email messages. It uses a temporary token and therefore won’t have access to your Gmail account forever.
4. Rapportive.com –
If you get an email from an unfamiliar person, you don’t have to use Google to know more about him or her as Rapportive will bring all that information right inside your Gmail inbox.
Rapportive takes the email address of the sender and builds a profile based on all the other social networks – like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. – where that person may have a presence.
5. AwayFind.com –
You are on a vacation but still have to check emails just because you don’t want to miss any of the “urgent” messages from your important clients?
With AwayFind, you can easily create alerts for important emails and get notified via phone calls or text messages without having to constantly check your mailbox.
6. Email Oracle –
This adds tracking to your outgoing Gmail messages so you’ll know if a particular message has been read by the recipient or not.
It does this by adding a tracking image to your messages and therefore the read receipts will only arrive if the recipient has allowed downloading of web images in her email client.
7. eTacts.com –
This is much like the previously mentioned Rapportive service but with some additional features.
First, you get a list of all your recent interactions with a person as soon as you open his or her message. Second, you can set how frequently you would like to stay in touch with a person and, if you don’t exchange emails for long, eTacts will send you an automatic reminder.
8. Hotmail.com –
How do you access your older emails when the main Gmail service is down and you don’t have an offline backup?
It is therefore recommended that you use a non-Gmail service to backup your Gmail messages and Hotmail perfectly fits the bill here. This archive should also come handy incase your Gmail gets hacked.
9. TripIt –
The service will scan your email inbox multiple times a day for any travel plans and automatically imports them to your TripIt itineraries without you having to forward any email message to TripIt.
If you already have an existing trip with overlapping dates, TripIt will add the plan to your trip else it will create a new trip.
10. Boomerang –
With Boomerang for Gmail, you can compose an email now and schedule it to be sent a later time. Thus you can easily schedule birthday notes when you have time to write them and have Boomerang dispatch them at the right time.
Regards,
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