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There's actually a nice feature regarding that in Google Inbox. It has adopted the approach first featured in Opera 12's mail client: Have all mail pre-filtere

There's actually a nice feature regarding that in Google Inbox. It has adopted the approach first featured in Opera 12's mail client: Have all mail pre-filtered into categories with a bayesian (or similar) filter trained by the user themselves. What this means in practice is that you have a bunch of categories for emails that are not urgent, like purchase receipts, ads, mailing lists, etc. and you teach inbox which of the mails you receive belong in there, just through the simple act of moving emails in and out. Emails in those categories don't trigger notifications. And for the kinds of emails you consider urgent, you move them out of the category they're in, let Inbox know "don't categorize this type of mail". Only those trigger notifications. The result of this is that your phone acts like a secretary on your emails. It sorts them into various inboxes for you so you can review them later on, or lets you know if something came in you might want to look at immediately. It's not perfect, sure, it's more akin to a 12 year old playing secretary. However it certainly stems the "tide" without forcing you to cut yourself off entirely, providing a nice medium you can use for normal work time, leaving DND mode for when you actually need exactly that.

cyberferret 10y ago
Good tip - Yes, I do have this filtering turned on in my two main email accounts, so that sales emails, newsletters, family emails etc. (even some system related alerts) all get filtered into separate folders so I don't get the constant 'dings' and don't see the app notification counter climbing like an F1 car odometer! Google Mail/Inbox is very good at this, and I have never missed any important client emails this way. However, it would be nice if the dings completely stopped of their own accord, say, after 6pm and didn't resume again until about 8am. (I know I can do this manually as other have suggested, but I would really like to 'baby' my phone less and have it figure out these things itself, or let me set it.) After all, if the Google App can work out when I start my car and connect my phone to my car Bluetooth on a Wednesday evening, that I am going to my mom's place for dinner, and it tells me how long it will take to get there, surely it can extend itself to holding off all emails for the evening so I can enjoy a nice family dinner? :-)
- Mithaldu 10y ago
  You have an iPhone, so i can't help there. Android already has quiet hours/weekend/calendar event rules/automation. Maybe iOS will follow suit soon. But before that, iirc, people used automation/tasking apps. I.e. primitive scripting interfaces in which you could say "when beyond this time, set to DND" or "when near this GPS location, allow only phone calls". Maybe the itunes app store has such automation apps?
  - ashildr 10y ago
    It's called "do not disturb" on iOS. Use it, it makes your life better. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321
herbst 10y ago
Inbox made me so much more relaxed about emails and daily work life i can only agree. Also the shedule for later function is a life safer for busy or lazy days.
Sharlin 10y ago
> The result of this is that your phone acts like a secretary on your emails. And that's exactly what workplace electronics is supposed to be about, really. We were promised a future where computers would lessen our workload and make human secretaries redundant. Well, human secretaries were made redundant but for the most part computers did not replace them.
- Mithaldu 10y ago
  To be honest, i've been living that future on my desktop with Opera M2 since roughly 2001. Aside from Inbox no other email client i know has ever replicated this feature.

cyberferret 10y ago

Good tip - Yes, I do have this filtering turned on in my two main email accounts, so that sales emails, newsletters, family emails etc. (even some system related alerts) all get filtered into separate folders so I don't get the constant 'dings' and don't see the app notification counter climbing like an F1 car odometer! Google Mail/Inbox is very good at this, and I have never missed any important client emails this way. However, it would be nice if the dings completely stopped of their own accord, say, after 6pm and didn't resume again until about 8am. (I know I can do this manually as other have suggested, but I would really like to 'baby' my phone less and have it figure out these things itself, or let me set it.) After all, if the Google App can work out when I start my car and connect my phone to my car Bluetooth on a Wednesday evening, that I am going to my mom's place for dinner, and it tells me how long it will take to get there, surely it can extend itself to holding off all emails for the evening so I can enjoy a nice family dinner? :-)

Mithaldu 10y ago
You have an iPhone, so i can't help there. Android already has quiet hours/weekend/calendar event rules/automation. Maybe iOS will follow suit soon. But before that, iirc, people used automation/tasking apps. I.e. primitive scripting interfaces in which you could say "when beyond this time, set to DND" or "when near this GPS location, allow only phone calls". Maybe the itunes app store has such automation apps?
- ashildr 10y ago
  It's called "do not disturb" on iOS. Use it, it makes your life better. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321

herbst 10y ago

Inbox made me so much more relaxed about emails and daily work life i can only agree. Also the shedule for later function is a life safer for busy or lazy days.

Sharlin 10y ago

> The result of this is that your phone acts like a secretary on your emails. And that's exactly what workplace electronics is supposed to be about, really. We were promised a future where computers would lessen our workload and make human secretaries redundant. Well, human secretaries were made redundant but for the most part computers did not replace them.

Mithaldu 10y ago
To be honest, i've been living that future on my desktop with Opera M2 since roughly 2001. Aside from Inbox no other email client i know has ever replicated this feature.