Whether you use Gmail for personal or professional reasons, on the web or from a mobile device, all of the following tools may be of great benefit to you. Take a look to see which ones catch your eye. When you write a new email in Gmail with Boomerang installed, you can press the new “Send Later” button that appears next to the regular “Send” button, which allows you to quickly pick a time to send (tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, etc.) or the opportunity to set an exact date and time to send it. Unroll.me also has a nifty iOS app you can use to manage all your email subscriptions while you’re on the go. If there’s a particular subscription you want to keep in your inbox, just send it to your “Keep” section so Unroll.me doesn’t touch it. You can also move unimportant messages that still show up in your inbox to your SaneLater folder, and if something that gets filed into your SaneLater folder becomes important again, you can move it out of there. Even though SaneLater takes the manual work out of organization, you still have full control for those messages you need to specifically put somewhere. Cold Email.ai (formerly LeadCooker) can help you strike a balance between emailing lots of people and keeping it more personal. You still get a lot of the features of traditional email marketing platforms like automated follow-ups and tracking, but recipients won’t see an unsubscribe link and your messages come straight from your Gmail address. Plans start at $9 per month. Sortd is the first “smart skin” for Gmail that divides your inbox into four main columns, with options to customize things the way you want. There are also apps available for both iOS and Android. Since it’s currently in beta, the tool is totally free for now, so check it out while you can before pricing is put in place! If you love using GIFs in Gmail, this is a must-have to help you save more time and compose your messages more efficiently. The reviews of this extension are pretty good overall, although some reviewers have expressed concern about bugs. The Giphy team seems to update the extension every so often, so if it doesn’t work for you straight away, consider trying it again when a new version is available. Ugly Email, which is a Chrome Extension, simply puts a little “evil eye” icon in front of the subject field of every tracked email. When you see that little evil eye, you can decide whether you want to open it, trash it, or maybe create a filter for future emails from that sender. A SignEasy option appears when you click to view the attachment in your browser. Once you’ve filled out the fields that need completion, the updated document is attached in the same email thread.
