Hello folks, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel today we're revisiting
Newton male this was a very popular email application at a time
it's how few ups and downs will sort of guide you through the journey to begin with and then we'll dive into the features of
this tool
giving you a few opinions on whether it's still relevant and how you can potentially
Use it and who its best and most suited for
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So here we are with Newton male and before we dive into some of the features
Let's go over some of the timeline that happened. I talked about this in our most recent Newton mail feature
Where we talked about the news of them coming back now new mail, originally launched I believe was back in September
2016 and it launched with a good amount of attention because
Previously it was available as an app called cloud magic now as you can imagine the new skin
brought along new pricing and it was priced at
$49.99
There emerged warranting because that's an expensive email pricing
But as you can imagine there are a lot of associated costs with the email
That's why it tends to be a little bit pricier now zoom forward
appended with February 2019 where actually they'd really close Newton and they've been
Repurchased or purchased by essential which is or was a hardware company
run by the ex-google
Android founder and basically they paws that in February of 2020 this year
with closing the company
So just get you up to speed to new individuals bought it that were fans of Newton and now they're basically running it
Again, and they're going to be doing a lot of different things for example in their statement there mentioned open sourcing it in the future
And also fixing many of the bugs throughout June and July, so I'm sure it's gonna be quite exciting
So as you can see
This is Newton mail and it's quite weird because I used to use this as my default email application
For a solid two to three years, so it's weird coming back to it. I currently use missive now
And as you can imagine it's very much different
And one thing I'd say is the pricing now of Newton seems a lot more attractive
It there's been a big wave in email applications over the last couple of months
Especially with the huge rise of superhuman calm which has been gained a lot of traction and that's $30 a month
So, you know a month and a half of superhuman is a year's worth of Newton if you look at it like that
So let's take a look at some of the features now
the first thing I want to talk about is this left-hand sidebar now left-hand sidebar gives you access to all of the different folders and
Areas, but keeps it in a fair, um, you know sleek fashion
It doesn't interrupt your experience too much and that's something I always liked about
Newton is that you have
The ability to tuck things away and you can focus on all of the emails in front of you instead of necessarily
Getting a bit overwhelmed with what's happening now over on the right hand side the ability to open up settings
Um, you know organize your two-step authentication
And access your Newton account as well. And as you can see here, you can change the user and password now
There are a few features. I'm actually inside of a folder right now called sane later
I haven't disconnected to sanebox, which is a really nifty application
But as you can see here, I've got all my emails and if I were to click into one of them
so if I went into this Daniel one subscribed you can go ahead and
obviously reply to everything you would but there are some features that make it a little bit special in terms of
The interactivity and making email a little bit easier to manage. The first is unsubscribed now
This is something that helps you to reduce the impact on your email and actually filters out emails into a separate folder
Now up here. You can snooze emails what I always liked about Newton. Is this very simplistic
Planning of like when you want to snooze them Sunday 8:00 Monday at 8:00
And that's always a lot little bit sort of neater
Then say I would actually say it's a little bit neater than say missives one
Oh, the missus ones are slightly more customizable, which you can customize
If you go up to the Newton
preferences you can go to general and they believe there's a snooze area or it's in
Supercharges and you can see here that you can modify a few of what the definitions of a workday
What is in afternoon, etc?
and
How those parameters work so you can modify that and that does make it a little bit easier
Now you can start emails and if you starry mails if you have a certain thread or folder
You can press this up at the top
and you can actually get a serve you of only starred emails very similar to how Gmail works and you can also
Get a list of sort of unopened emails which can be very helpful for being to plan
All the things you're trying to get back to you that aren't overwhelming you
So one thing that always made Newton really attractive is the design and as you can see you can have a really nice
sort of window you can open this window up fully and
Naturally, it's very clean. A very minimalist. You can even add in email signatures to the bottom of your
Emails which is very helpful. Now when you go ahead and type an email
The text and font are really nice in terms of making it a very visual experience
Especially on Mac now up here
You can attach things so you can also send it the following parameters if somebody hasn't
Followed up within a certain time if they've not replied
You can snooze it till after sending and even send later
You can also get a notification when read so when you're composing your message
You can utilize some of the basic formatting which is very simple to use
So down in the bottom right-hand corner
If you're looking to sync or refresh you can go ahead and press that and it should refresh any of the messages they're coming in
now all all the time I'd say this actually works without the media to refresh but sometimes if you've got
Some IMAP and POP accounts. I believe that takes a little bit less time
So if we go to preferences you can go ahead and add any email at any given time for example
Google Apps office 365 Gmail exchange IMAP
ICloud yahoo! Mail and outlook
so all of this makes it easy to be able to manage your email and the good thing is once you have an account you
Can add as many email accounts as possible?
So one of the things I like is you can customize the actions you get on each of the different emails
So for example if I were to hover over a certain email
You can see that a few options appear up here
This is all helpful. And you can even modify the toolbar that comes up at the top of each email
So in any thread you can have conversation view with a new thing called true inbox
so when you start a new conversation, you'll see it in your inbox and
Helps to almost use the lights in luton as a chat application
For someone that uses GTD or at least Merlin man's inbox zero method. This is probably not beneficial
So super charges are also a very important part of the email system
If I were to go as send an email and press a notification when read this would activate the read receipt
supercharger which allows me to see
Whether someone has read the email when they open it, but inside of Newton if you see two ticks on an email
It means that it's read and you can see actually the location it's been read as well which sometimes can be a little bit intrusive
Tidy inbox is a fairly new feature. Well, I say new it was coming out in later stages of when they had the application
But you can actually separate newsletters and emails from social media
This is something for me the same box starts a little bit better than Newton. But if you're someone that is brand new and
Wants to be able to filter it down. Let me show you how that were
So inside of this low priority phone you'll see that there's newsletters and social if I click into social
You can see that you can begin filtering items out. You can even delete all and bulk unsubscribe
But each time you and one the system will learn each time and improve the quality of the emails going in
So one of the things that Newton does allow you to do is save items to other applications
for example
If you wanted to send that to Evernote safe to todoist or OneNote to save later
To relay to you could even send it to Pocket in an instant paper
All you have to do is press these three buttons on the side and there are a range of options
There are also more options down here if you wanted to save that as a PDF in case you wanted to have it on
A file or anything like that?
but if I were to select a duyst
Once you've agreed all the permissions naturally you can go ahead and add that as a new task even adding it to a project
Assigning a priority and adding a judez as well
so this becomes incredibly useful when you're saving into the
Applications like Evernote OneNote Instapaper and pocket impetus one final thing to note is there is a send later feature
This is a really simple feature that actually uses some natural language passing to be able to send a email for later
So for example, if you wanted something to land on someone's desk at 9 a.m
Then you can definitely have that happen and when you go and press end send later will appear in the top right hand corner
So folks that was an overview of how Newton works and Newton mell is a fairly
Nice application. It's really simplistic. If you're someone that wants a very minimalist email application is willing to pay
medium amount fee per year at
$49.99 good application for someone like myself that has gone from using Newton to missive
I don't really see myself moving back. There are some features like
Responses some of the integrations and also some of the customization inside of missive that for me
Doesn't make me want to move back. However, missive is almost twice the price or even three times the price of Newton
So at the same time when you're looking at that you can naturally see where there sort of differences are so folks
That was an overview of the likes of Newton. Hopefully that was a useful summary of the application
Obviously the team are seem to be working hard on
Redoing this and I'm actually in plank to do a feature about how email
Applications how much they cost in the background because that's something that goes ignored and something that whilst working at Newton
Definitely got that flagged and was definitely a big talking point
Sustainability in the email market is very tough
And we've seen that over the years with a lot of applications that have popped up and said goodbye. So folks a big
Thank you, and I'll talk to you all very soon. Cheers, everyone. Bye
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