When your inbox is full of newsletters, automated updates, and receipts, it can be difficult to focus on the emails that actually require your attention. — When your inbox is full of newsletters, automated updates, and receipts, it can be difficult to focus on the emails that actually require your attention. So, to make it easier to focus on only the most important to-dos, Twobird automatically filters out low priority emails — anything that doesn’t require…

When notes and conversations all live in the same app, you can save time, retain critical context, and keep the whole team on the same page. — When your team’s work is spread out over several different siloed apps, finding the most important, up-to-date information can be tricky. Every time you switch between apps, it negatively affects your productivity and you risk losing important context. …

When you want to schedule a task for a more convenient time or when you need more time to respond to a message, try using reminders. — Twobird allows you to temporarily dismiss an email or a note and have it reenter your inbox at the time and date of your choosing. Watch this video to learn more about how you can do it: Just mouse over the email or note for which you want to…

Newsletters are a major cause of inbox clutter. Fortunately, Twobird can help. — Are you overwhelmed with email newsletters? With Twobird, you can view and manage subscriptions, all in one convenient place, and unsubscribe from dozens of subscriptions with a single click. Check out this video to see how you can do it: To get started, click on the “Unsubscribe” button in…

Instead of wrangling tasks across different apps that don’t work together, you can manage more of your to-dos with the inbox you already have. — When you need to write yourself a short note or a reminder, it’s important to do so quickly and with as little friction as possible so that you don’t forget. …

We’re looking for small teams to join our latest alpha, which brings team communication front and center. — At Twobird, we’ve been hard at work on the alpha of Twobird Teams: a project management tool for teams without project managers. This alpha is rooted in something that we’ve seen over and over again: a team starts with the best of intentions to keep their project management software up…

Desire paths are unofficial shortcuts that demonstrate how people tend to take the path of least resistance. As software designers, we can learn from urban planners: desire paths are a form of user feedback, and by taking users’ digital “desire paths” into account, we can create better software. — If you’ve ever seen unofficial shortcuts of dirt and flattened grass cutting through hedges or around corners, you’ve seen what urban planners call “desire paths.” …

Every item in your inbox represents some kind of action that you have to take or a decision that you have to make. That’s why we’ve redesigned the inbox to better reflect how people already use email — as an all-in-one to-do list. — Over 4 billion people (roughly half the world’s population) use email, and every day email users send over 300 billion messages—so it’s no surprise that most of us end up spending a lot of time in our email inboxes. …

It’s time for us to embrace the behaviors that are commonly dismissed as “laziness”: not only can laziness help us find the most efficient path forward, it can also lead to greater creativity in problem-solving. — At Twobird, we firmly believe that you shouldn’t have to spend hours every day sifting through email. That’s why we’ve designed email that allows you to relax a little! Our lead engineer Garrett Mitchell recently published an article on the power of “laziness” in Fast Company: