Description: The Email Game: The fastest, most fun way to manage your inbox.
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When we started building Boomerang and the Email Game simultaneously back in 2010, we weren't sure if building productivity tools into Gmail or if building a rapid-fire gamified workflow for clearing out a full Inbox would be more valuable. Eight years later, Boomerang has been successful beyond our imagination, and the Email Game has um... proven that a rapid-fire gamified workflow is probably not what most people want to use to process their email.
We've kept the Email Game running over the years, but it's reaching the age where it needs a pretty significant rewrite. We'll get a lot more bang for the buck if we invest that effort into Boomerang instead.
We know there's nothing else quite like the Email Game out there, but with help from our core product Boomerang and a few settings changes, you can get an experience inside Gmail that's pretty close to it. Here are our recommendations: