Master your mail

Say goodbye to email overload with Airmail 3

REQUIRES

AirMail 3, an email account

you will learn

How to tame even the most intimidating inbox

IT WILL TAKE

15 minutes Airmail 3 is designed to organize even the busiest accounts. It integrates with stacks of third-party apps to share information, notes, and events; it enables you to hide messages until you actually need to do something about them; and you can customize everything from its icons to what happens when you swipe the trackpad. At $9.99 it’s excellent value for money.

One of the things we really like about Airmail is that it doesn’t force you to sacrifice anything. The most powerful apps tend to prioritize utility over appearance, but Airmail is as pretty as it is powerful; it’s also exceptionally easy to use and, if you use trackpad swipes, keyboard shortcuts, or the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar, incredibly quick.

Where some apps take a like it or lump it approach to their interface, Airmail enables you to try different themes, add or remove on-screen options, and even customize which icons appear in the message window.

In this tutorial, we’re going to use Airmail on macOS, but there’s also a really good iOS version for iPhone and iPad. Like its macOS sibling, the iOS version is very, very fast, and it’s particularly pretty on the iPad. For sheer speed, though, nothing beats the iPhone version: its customizable swipes make it easy to tame even the most tumultuous email inbox.

If you have a busy inbox (or several), running and syncing Airmail across all your devices will save you an enormous amount of time.