Organize Your Not-So-Important Email More Efficiently With OtherInbox (Invites) (Updated)
OtherInbox is an email service that wants to give you control over emails that come from services you sign up for and other various accounts you may have online.
At first, I didn’t understand why a service like this would be useful. Why not just create a new hotmail or Gmail account for singing up for various services? Well, because that can be a pain and waste time. OtherInbox pretty much eliminates the need to create throwaway email addresses.
When you sign up, the username that you choose will be part of your OtherInbox email address. But, when you use your OtherInbox email address, you can customize the domain each time you use it. For example: If I was signing up for Twitter, I would use molly@twitter.otherinbox.com twitter@molly.otherinbox.com as my email address. My OtherInbox domain is molly@otherinbox.com but I can use each service or account as part of my domain when singing up for things. (Update: In the screencast I said you use your username first as your OtherInbox domain and then the name of the service. This is incorrect. Use the service name first (ie. Twitter) followed by @ and your username.otherinbox.com. Make sense?)
When you sign into your OtherInbox account you’ll see that each sub-domain has its own tab which contains the emails from that particular service. So, since I signed up for Twitter with my OtherInbox email address, and since I used twitter as my sub-domain, Twitter has its own inbox within my OtherInbox account.
If a service starts spamming you, you can block all future emails from them with one click. That means you no longer have to click on a link to opt out of receiving emails that you don’t remember ever opting into in the first place.
OtherInbox is currently in private beta, but they’re giving invites to the first 50 people who sign up by clicking on this link. To see OtherInbox in action, watch the screencast below:
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