Unboxd

i never liked reading emails because most of them are just noise and don't need your attention and you would be fine not knowing about them at all!

but you would know such emails only after reading them! that's why we could never really filter the noise out of the inbox until the recent ai advancements in LLMs.

i also never liked "dealing with an inbox". the act of going through a long list of letters that all are competing for your attention. and the fact that you need to make hundreds of decisions to "clean up" your inbox:

- glance at a few words in the subject of a list of tens if not hundreds of emails and decide which one is important enough to prioritize over others

- once you decided on the lucky email that can get your attention and opened it then you have to decide where to look in an email to see what is it about without getting distracted by the visuals or hooks

- then after figuring out what this email is about by reading words here and there on the page, you need to decide again: delete? archive? star? label? reply? create a reminder? create a todo? unsubscribe? block? report? mark as unread? 🤯

email inbox is an obsolete concept that never got an upgrade after the internet became popular which led to overflowing inboxes and communication overload for anyone with an email account.

if you think about it, we read emails mostly to see if there is something for us to do. so inbox is kind of a todo list. and emails are just how tasks are added to this todo list. but inbox is a horrible todo list right now.

that's why i've built unboxd to be a smart todo list, and not an inbox. you can control who and what can be put on your todo list. you can teach it to become smarter everyday.

i started unboxd as an attempt to fix how we interact with emails by abstracting away the inbox and emails completely, and putting a secretary in between, so you don't have to "read emails" and "deal with an inbox".

the ai secretary will read all your emails, extract action items and brief you on what matters. you get notified only when there is something that truly "needs" your attention.

now, i don't read emails anymore. i just check my unboxd briefing each morning. my inbox anxiety is gone, and i'm more productive than ever.

i built this for myself, but realized millions of people face the same problem.

inbox is obsolete. the real war is against noise in our communications. i'm on a mission to win this war.

join me to upgrade the world together this way. we deserve better than this.