hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel it's francesco here
and i hope you guys are all well today we're going to be diving into superhuman which is an email
application with some high spec abilities now i'm going to be diving into my own experience of the
last three months of using it and talking about some of the core elements of this application
today's video is actually sponsored by superhuman so big thank you to the team
you can check the link out in description below and explore more about how this application works
in this video so i want to start with what is superhuman i've done a couple of videos on this
before also training with the founding team if you wanted to check it out a couple of years ago
and that will be in the link in description but superhuman basically tried to rebuild email from
the ground up with intelligent features that helps you read triage and organize your email better
now in particular something i wasn't doing compared to other email applications was actually
keyboard focused sort of management and that's something that's very heavily pushed in super um
and actually a lot easier to learn than i thought never a keyboard guy but now very much am and it
does help me to process my inbox a lot faster so let's touch on those core elements and then i want
to move on to my own experience from using it so far so the first feature that i want to zoom in on
is the split inbox this is really a neat feature for triaging email it's sort of like automatic
triage but essentially you can manage your email into these like tabs and you can actually use a
tab button to move across them rapidly but you can organize them um into a bit more sort of
customized experiences for example like vip can be for your most important emails you could create
one for your team with any team members that email you but you can basically split this up
using command k which helps you to narrow down who you want in each stream of email now i found this
particularly helpful for example i've done one on affiliate sales to be able to see like a feed of
affiliate sales that are coming in i've done this for bento with vip having people signed up to it
that are particularly effective when it comes to projects that we need to move forward and i
can go quickly to vip and see those emails without having to triage my whole inbox every single time
so split and box is a great function and definitely something i recommend
the second feature is remind me now this is obviously a way to snooze your emails so you
can simply snooze an email for another time and you can even pick it up on your desktop as well
if it's something that for example you require a large file or something to be sent over you
can actually remind you when you're back on your desktop which is pretty cool but there's actually
a feature for example when you're sending an email you can actually get it to remind you
when to follow up with the other person which is something that i do quite often when sending
emails because i don't want to lose maybe communication and it helps you to do that
without having to add it to your to-do list every single time which is really painful in my opinion
the third feature to zoom in on is the calendar function and they've really worked on this over
the last couple of months actually releasing a feature before but i didn't know that they
actually had this until sort of playing around with it and it's really cool because you can
organize meetings without need to necessarily go to your email application and you can add
things like zoom google me conferencing all within there just using the keyboard and actually there's
a lot of things small things that intuitively intuitively do stuff in the background and you
can also invite other people quite easily too so i found the email function the email to calendar
function actually better than i thought i didn't know it's gonna be as good as as i was thinking
next up is snippets now snippets are a way to replicate processes almost like templates in your
email they could be quickly brought up and even for example brought in with cc or bcc and even
include custom variables like attachments as well so snippets i found particularly helpful because
i give you give you a good example of how it can work is we had like this issue on our courses site
where we can't sell to a certain country well i was having to send this email every single time
and naturally obviously i wanted to save a bit of time doing that so i set up a snippet for it and
it's it definitely suits me the 100th time you're retyping it and actually being able to do that
so i can use snippets on mobile as well so i can quickly send them on the go to next up send later
this is also a really good function if you want to get into people's inbox at the right time zone
so you can actually choose the right time zone to get and schedule the email to land in that
person's inbox and this is really good especially if you've got releases or critical emails
and you can also set a useful follow-up too so you can make sure to still keep in contact if you're
descending later as well so in terms of my own experience from using this first off i did the
45 minute call and to be honest i wasn't expecting what i was going to expect if you know what i mean
i had the 45 minute call and actually learned a lot more about how i can triage my inbox better
so it's almost like a productivity lesson but also a way to set up on this and one thing that they
quite sort of i guess a focus quite intentionally on is the command bar and the command k
function and being able to use the command bar has literally become second nature to me
and being able to manage it is email using the command bar sort of quickly making prompts and
do using the keyboard has actually saved a lot of time i honestly didn't think i was going to use
a command or even keyboard as much as i do but i really use the mouse pad when managing email now
it's really done all on the keyboard which is really great because it's really easily
managed the second thing that i want to pay attention to is the tabbing i really like
quickly tabbing across different things and i found on mobile it's really awesome awesome
and easy to actually tab across stuff because you can swipe across and switch
accounts quite easily and it was quite really rapid at the bottom which i found quite easy
the other thing as well is a pop-up email as well this is something that when you scroll to midway
through an email it says do you want to pop up the reply in your email and there's just subtle things
that come up at the bottom that once you learn the keyboard shortcut and make your life a lot easier
and popping up email is actually something when you're trying to write an email back can save you
a lot of time so actually the command bar is is a really underrated feature inside of super cube so
that was a little bit of an overview of superhuman to give you an idea of those key features you can
you can actually go through them again using the the time stamps and that's a little bit of
my experience i say that compared to my previous experience with tempo it's probably like doubled
my speed of email it did take a few probably about a week to get used to everything not only that
but the keyboard shortcuts and naturally the user interface and things like that but to be
honest it's really nice because previously i had like an app for a desktop and an app for phone
there were two separate applications for managing email and it was horrible but actually having a
robust email on my phone has actually helped and allowed me to respond because i was previously a
bit scared like oh i can't respond because it hasn't got the same functionality as i need it
to but it's actually really really easy and one thing i like as well is on the phone it comes up
in this lovely conversation view too which is just a nice and small thing that they've added
so folks a big big thank you a huge thanks to superhuman for sponsoring today's video hopefully
this gave everyone who's interested in it a sort of overview of how i'm using it you can check
out the link in description if you have any more questions about my own superhuman use you can feel
free to ask them below but a big thank you folks and i'll talk to you all very very soon cheerio