Notion Email Intelligence
Filter your email automatically
With just one swipe you can archive, flag, and mark emails as read
Free FROM Notion AI, notion.ai needs iOS 9.0 or higher
Email is a pain in the apps; it’s hard to find something that suits your specifications – whatever you use it for, it always feels like the app
is optimised for someone else. Notion Email Intelligence works pretty damn well, especially for something that’s free.
The main draw of the app is that it uses artificial intelligence to figure out who and what is important to you. It’s not entirely obvious how it does it, but after 25 to 60 minutes of thinking about it when you first set up the app, it does pretty well. It’s a little creepy having a list of ‘people that are the most important to you’, especially if it’s a business email account and it starts rating your clients as 10/10 in terms of closeness, but we can forgive that. It works, after all.
With just one swipe you can archive, flag, and mark emails as read. Once you get used to which direction does what, it makes going through emails an absolute breeze. There’s a Radar tab, too, which is absolutely fantastic (as long as it works) – it picks up on questions within your emails and flags them up for you, telling you to respond ASAP, and monitoring other people’s delayed responses. It even prompts you to respond to new questions within a certain time, presumably to get better at using email!
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Notion has some issues, mostly to do with its simplicity. It’s hard to figure out how to tell the app who is important to you if it already decided that someone isn’t. ‘Unimportant’ emails are grey, and can be archived in bulk, but if there are important emails among them you might accidentally archive those as well. You can also filter by which emails are starred, but not by unread. There are options like ‘Insight Signature’, which offers to add relevant statistics to ‘encourage responses’, but that’s all terrifyingly vague.
All in all, Notion Email Intelligence, despite being somewhat obfuscated by its minimal design philosophy, is an excellent way to manage your email. You might want to pair it with another email app to ensure nothing slips through the cracks, though, which seems a bit clunky.