I have been using email regularly since the early ‘90's and to this day I maintain four separate email accounts:

1. Work email
2. Personal email - technically a Gmail account, but I use a Hover.com vanity name, and have since 1995.
3. Everything else email — an old Rocketmail account that I use for most newsletters, online shopping, etc
4. Xbox email account — an old Hotmail account that is required to use Xbox Gold Live.

The issue is that each of the emails have at one time been used as my personal email account and continue to receive email, though mostly newsletters and junk. I like keeping things separate but often I find that I didn’t do a great job of using the email correctly. Sometimes receipts are in my Gmail and sometimes in my Rocketmail. I am a lazy person and rather than change the email on file for all my accounts and unsubscribe from newsletters I know longer care about I had hoped to find a single app to do it for me. I have tried many email clients with the hope that there would be a better way to manage all of them at once, but sadly no.

Introducing Inky…

Inky is a OSX and iOS app that allows you to add most of your email into a single email client. Unlike other email clients that allow you to view each email account in a silo, Inky prefers to filter your inbox automatically into categories based on the type of email regardless of where the email is sent. Now my daily deal emails that come in to my three accounts are consolidated into a single folder. You may have seen this before on other iOS apps, but what sets Inky apart is that it also has an app for your laptop. Now I have the same email features on my main two devices, and I am looking at the same view, brilliant.

With Inky you are able to add email accounts from Yahoo, Rocketmail, Hotmail, Live, Outlook.com, POP, and IMAP. Once the accounts are added you can view all email in the Unified Inbox or within each account. You also can view emails by filtered categories.

When you look at the filtered view Inky filters your email in to the following categories by default:

You are able to train the app to filter incorrectly email in to the correct folder, and it seems to work well.

Inky also uses the swipe navigation. Swiping from right to left reveals a menu. From right to left the options are DELETE, ARCHIVE, and the option to open additional submenu.

The sub-menu allows you to do the following:

1. Move the message
2. Report the sender as SPAM
3. Block the sender
4. Change the Relevance to me
5. Assign the Sender to Smart View to change what folder the message is filed under
6. Mark the message as unread
7. Flag the message
8. One-click reply

One click reply allows you to reply to the message with a predefined list of messages. You also have the option to add your own custom messages.

Swiping from left to right reveals another submenu. Within this menu you can Flag the email for follow up, change the relevance, or access a quick reply.

Reading emails

When reading email Inky offers a feature not see with other email clients. Inky scans the email and offers the ability to unsubscribe from the email distro right at the top of the email with a single click. When there are multiple ways of unsubscribing Inky will offer multiple ways as well. I never had an issue using this feature, and found myself unsubscribing to email lists that I wanted to get off of but never tried before.

Emails have the typical bottom of the app buttons. Inky offers a link to additional submenu describe previously, ability to archive, trash, reply or create a new email. When replying to an email you have several options. The “One-Click” options bring up the Quick Reply menu discussed earlier.