ActiveInbox Reviews & Product Details

I love that ActiveInbox lives inside my Gmail! Not just an integration with email, but a harmonic reliance. The arrangement creates a symbiotic relationship between the host email account and the attached productivity system. Mutualism at its best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is only partially intuitive. The reminder system/strategy is severely lacking for those who are conditioned to alerts. I can't easily set an exact time that I want to revisit or attend to a task/email and cannot receive reminders or alerts on my phone for example. Most disappointing is the nearly non-existent integration with my calendar and zero integration with the Google task list. I get the attempt at keeping everything in Gmail, but the reality is that we all use other tools. I really would like to see more integrations (Slack, Evernote, Office 365/Outlook, mobile apps. ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface and usage of Gmail labels to keep my inbox organized. The waiting on feature which enables me to see what emails I am waiting on a reply for is extremely helpful. I also enjoy being able to schedule emails as tasks on my Google Calendar. In addition, the fact that I can create lists based on David Allens Getting Things Done methodology helps me with my productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its only for a one-person organization. For larger projects you'll want to consider something like Clickup or Asana (I recommend Clickup over Asana) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works alongside Gmail to help me stay on top of deadlines and projects. I especially like the ability to track when I'm waiting for responses from others and need to follow up with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slack integration would be great. My company also uses Slack, and I find it very hard to remember which conversations I'm having in Slack versus Gmail. With Activeinbox in Gmail I feel like I'm in control, I can find things I need to find, and can stay on top of everything. With Slack messages I have no good way of keeping track of what needs to be done, can't find things, and can't keep track of what I need to follow up on. I can use Activeinbox to create non-email based tasks things I need to follow up on, but it isn't as clean as when everything is in Gmail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that ActiveInbox sits on top of my unread emails where I can always see my tasks and their due dates. I make sure to add everything that is important to me here, which helps with replying, prioritizing and calculating workload.

I like that you can easily add/change due dates for your emails and that you can see your list for Today/Tomorrow or an exact date. Also, a nice feature is that you can organize everything in folders based on your projects or people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike is that you don't receive a notification when you exceed the due date that was assigned to a certain email. It would be nice to receive some sort of notification at least at the beginning of the day to make sure you are not forgetting things.

Also, sometimes it gets disconnected and it's hard to connect again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how it’s kinda like gmail where i can organize files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how you have to mark the folders in specific categories Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love being able to assign deadlines to myself or others on emails. If I need a response from someone, I can set the email's status as "Waiting On," set a due date and get the email out of my inbox. If they have not responded, it is so helpful that the email will reappear in my inbox and I'm reminded to follow up. Likewise, if I need to do something, but not right away, I can set the status as "Action" with a due date and be reminded of what I need to do with that email at a later date. It is a huge benefit to my peace of mind and productivity to be able to get emails out of my inbox until they need to be dealt with again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The newest version of ActiveInbox does not yet play well with Salesforce Lightning for Gmail. I am currently dealing with this by using an earlier version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps you focus on the important emails via the task system and you can get a better overview about your work tasks in general. It implements well in your Gmail email account and has a nice decent design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it needs some more time to load, I am not sure why this is the case because it is only a small program. And I would like to use it on my other mail account too but that does not work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can change my emails into tasks and can make myself a nice overview of my work in progress. It satisfies my need to be more structured at work especially with the countless email conversations that I have to do every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It only works with your Gmail Account. I have luck because I primarily use this account for my work emails but others could be not so lucky. Also, the price is high in comparison to the limited features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is simple to use and install because it is a Gmail add-on. The features are easy to understand work great. The best one I think is the function to send out emails at a certain time and date without having to be online at that moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At some time I had some crash issues with the tool but the good support helped me at a quick rate with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main feature is excellent for me. Making tasks of my mailing inbox is very nice for people like me who like structures in their daily work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the price after the trial period could be a little less expensive but this is only my subjective opinion. Also I think the learn progress can be made a little more easy. I wish I could find a similar tool for my other mail account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it can raise your structurization at your workplace with some little tweaks for your Gmail account. Also a huge bonus point is the fact that you can test it for free before you have to pay and the setup and integration process is made very easy. The features that the tool offers are also selfexplanatory and the tutorial is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The feature of making tasks from your Email isnt new because in other mailing clients/systems I have seen it. Nevertheless Activeinbox has a nice simple approach to this feature. The problem for me is that after a while I dont care if there is an ordinary E-Mail or i made a task about it. For me the motivation effect from this feature endured only for a short time period. Other features like the scheduling of a mail are nice too but I have other programs in use that do the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That I can make tasks from my received mails easily. This works very good and offers a nice morale boost and overview bonus at work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the idea behind Activeinbox is very good but I had some serious issues with the tool within the trial period. The delay sending of an email to another person did not work correctly for me. I tried it only two times and it failed so I wasnt sure if it will work in the future and I didnt send any mails after that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been an early user of AIB and I keep checking on other products and email clients just to see if anything else matches up. Short answer: nothing has.

I've lost count, but I think I've used it for close to a decade and AIB has grown over the years to a slick feature-packed add-on to email in a browser. Its best features: ability to treat emails as to-dos and follow up on them as you need, notes and mini to-do lists that can be tacked on to individual emails, superb tagging that enables quick retrieval, awesome integration with GMail in your browser and quick keyboard shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. It's a browser extension which rules out using it in an email client, which might be a deal breaker for some, but I haven't yet met an email client (and believe me, I've tried a lot!) that works well enough to woo me away from AIB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it keeps your "to do" right in your inbox. It really has helped me to keep on top of a tsunami of email I get everyday. I also like that I can add notes to each item and set deadlines. You can even have the email pop up again when it is due. I also like that they keep up with the changes with Gmail. I still use this day to day to manage my overload of email. Also, I use the send later button a lot so that people get my email at a time that is reasonable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since my team has grown, I would like if it would integrate with project management tools like Asana. I imagine I could figure out a hack since it does connect with my Google calendar and on the other end, Asana does the same, but who has time to figure it out? As a result, I use it a little less intensely since my team has grown. Also, the app for my Android phone is still in early stages. I am thrilled they finally added an app, though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to set a message as Next Action, Waiting On, Reference, etc., the ease of associating messages with specific projects, and the ease and good interface of the "Due Date" function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn't always work or play well with other Gmail add-ons like Streak. The user experience with the toolbar when inside a single message feel oddly different from the experience when viewing a group of messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I actually liked the program, and paid for a year subscription, however the application is unstable, keeps disappearing from my gmail account, and wanted me to add it to all of the accounts I monitor - incessant with pop-ups "Activate ActiveInBox?" Every. Single. Time. And then it just disappeared altogether. Customer service had been pretty good up until the point the app disappeared from my account. and I asked for my money back. Never heard another peep from anyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unstable app with annoying pop-up questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

seamless and clean integration to gmail. GTD (Getting Things Done) in a real-life use. Most of the features are available in the Free version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not sure if this is a formal service in the google market place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.