Protect your focus... spend less time on your email.

Latest Version

Version
2.5.3
Update
November 7, 2024
Size
294KiB
Developer
inboxwhenready.org
Category
Users
10,000+
Rating
4.9341 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
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Inbox When Ready for Gmail™ Extension

This Chrome extension will help you check your inbox with reasonable frequency, batch process your email on a regular schedule and minimise the total time you spend in your inbox.

If you're a good fit, you'll reclaim about an hour from your inbox every week.

### How it works

Inbox When Ready makes some changes to the Gmail interface to help you cultivate a better email workflow.

- Hide your inbox by default
Search your archives and compose new messages *without getting distracted*. See your inbox only when you deliberately choose to.

- Set an inbox budget
Decide how many times you want to check your inbox and how much total time you want to spend on it. Then, get visual feedback on how you're doing versus your intention.

- Schedule your inbox lockout
Define an inbox lockout schedule so you can focus on deep work and then batch process your mail at optimal moments.

### Free or PRO?

The free edition of Inbox When Ready puts a small message in your email signature. You can upgrade to Inbox When Ready PRO to permanently disable the signature.

All new users enjoy a 14 day free trial of Inbox When Ready PRO.

More information here:
https://inboxwhenready.org/pricing/

### What about my privacy?

The extension requests the minimum browser permissions that are required to make changes to the Gmail web interface.

Inbox When Ready does not require API access to your Gmail account. This makes it much more secure than the vast majority of browser extensions for Gmail, and suitable for use with Google's Advanced Protection Programme.

The full terms and privacy policy is here:
https://inboxwhenready.org/terms-privacy.html

### Support, feature requests and contributions

Please email [email protected].

### How is this different from the Inbox Pause extension?
The main difference: Inbox When Ready hides your entire inbox by default, while Inbox Pause by Boomerang only hides new incoming mail.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Brendan O'Connor (ID: 000000ad575332d6) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 08/13/2024 UPDATE: Is anyone having issues with emails not sending, and needing to refresh and then send again? It's SUPER annoying, and this is the only thing i can identify that may do it. I had to change my 5 star to 3 star for now... -- This is such a beautiful add-on, i love it

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Mitra Martin (ID: 000000285f6bf9cf) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/19/2024 Helps me find Inbox zen

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Josias RAZAFIMAMONJY (ID: 00000004564257d4) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/11/2024 Efficace

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Christopher Banks (ID: 000000deb90f8278) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 03/07/2024 Works very well if you use you task manager& you don't have to many extensions.

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Barbara Logan (ID: 0000001f5efc4971) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/05/2024 I love this - I still have access if I need it but don't get derailed by seeing something that distracts and diverts my attention.