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InboxVudu

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InboxVudu finds important emails you've received or sent, and highlights the portions that require your attention. As a free service, it's worth a spin, but other email assistants are more sophisticated. - InboxVudu
3.5 Good

The Bottom Line

InboxVudu finds important emails you've received or sent, and highlights the portions that require your attention. As a free service, it's worth a spin, but other email assistants are more sophisticated.

Pros & Cons

    • Finds emails that require follow-up in both your inbox and sent messages folder.
    • Highlights the most important snippet of each message.
    • Only supports Gmail.
    • Only available as an iPhone app and Google Chrome plug-in.
    • Very few settings.
    • No VIP list.
    • Needs more alert options.

I don't know a single soul who doesn't need help managing email. Email assistant apps are among the most valuable productivity apps you can find. InboxVudu is one such free service that helps surface important messages and highlights what's important about them. It turns those messages into a little to-do list, showing parts of them in an iPhone app and Google Chrome plug-in. As of this writing, the service is fairly new, and it's a little rough around the edges, but it's definitely worth a try. Though promising, it's not yet quite as sophisticated as SaneBox, PCMag's Editors' Choice for email assistant services.

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Final Thoughts

InboxVudu finds important emails you've received or sent, and highlights the portions that require your attention. As a free service, it's worth a spin, but other email assistants are more sophisticated. - InboxVudu

InboxVudu

3.5 Good

InboxVudu finds important emails you've received or sent, and highlights the portions that require your attention. As a free service, it's worth a spin, but other email assistants are more sophisticated.

About Our Expert

Jill Duffy

Jill Duffy

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My Experience

I'm an expert in software and work-related issues, and I have been contributing to PCMag since 2011. I launched the column Get Organized in 2012 and ran it through 2024, offering advice on how to manage all the devices, apps, digital photos, email, and other technology that can make you feel overwhelmed. That column turned into the book Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Messy Digital Life. I was also the first product reviewer at PCMag to test fitness gadgets, including everything from early Fitbits to smart bras.

Currently, I'm passionate about the meaning of work and work culture, and I enjoy writing about how managers and employees can communicate better, with or without software. My most recent book is The Everything Guide to Remote Work. I also love a good workplace drama. 

In addition to writing about work, I cover online education, focusing on learning for personal enrichment and skills development. I have a soft spot for really good language-learning software. Although I grew up speaking only English, some twists and turns in life led me to learn Spanish, Romanian, and a bit of American Sign Language. I've studied at the university level, as well as at the Foreign Service Institute, where US diplomats and ambassadors learn languages.

My writing has also appeared in WIRED, the BBC, Gloria, Refinery29, and Popular Science, among other publications.

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The Technology I Use

Squeezing every last bit of usage out of the devices I already own is the only way I can tolerate my personal consumption. In other words, I do not own the latest cutting-edge technology. I buy things that will last and try to take care of them.

My life is organized by Todoist, and my notes live in Joplin. Where would I be without Dashlane as my password manager? Probably locked out of all my many online accounts—I have more than 1,000 of them.

When I share my contact information, it's an excruciatingly long list of phone numbers, messaging apps, and email addresses, because it's essential to stay flexible while also remaining somewhat mysterious.

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