Inbox When Ready for Gmail™

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

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Inbox When Ready for Gmail™: Manage and Focus Your Email Time

Inbox When Ready for Gmail™ is a Chrome extension that aims to enhance productivity. It allows users to check their inbox periodically, process emails on a regular schedule, and ultimately minimize the total time spent in the inbox. Extra features include the ability to hide the inbox, set a specific inbox budget, and schedule lockout periods for focused work. The extension respects privacy by only requesting bare minimum browser permissions and offers a PRO version for additional functionalities.

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Extension stats

By: https://inboxwhenready.org

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.93

(1,987)

Version: 2.5.4 (Last updated: 2025-01-06)

Creation date: 2020-04-05

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

https://inboxwhenready.org/*
https://mail.google.com/*

Size: 301.06K

Email: pe*****@inboxwhenready.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 6,587 ▲ 34

Other rankings

#620 in Workflow & Planning

#2 in inbox keyword 91

#37 in gmail keyword 97

#67 in spend keyword 46

#155 in interface keyword 31 ▲

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Inbox When Ready for Gmail™ (v1.8.1)

4.97

(74) 182

Inbox When Ready for Gmail™ (v2.5.4)

4.90

(19) 487

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Extension summary

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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

User reviews

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