Are you following Paper Planes? — Last month, we decided to delete our Wordpress account and officially moved to Medium. We love Medium, most of us begin our day here! And with its clean interface (not unlike Newton), easy-to-use editor and highly engaged community, making the switch was a no-brainer. Looking back, we’re glad we switched…

The Problem We have a varied and distributed server stack that uses three different languages along with 50–100 EC2 instances running at any given time. We handle about 20 million requests a day with more than a million requests at peak hours. Most of these requests (75%) are authenticated requests i.e. they…

Do you know how many emails are received per day by the average office worker? Answer: 121 emails. (Source) This statistic doesn’t shock many people but as we speak emails are flying around above us. Around 205 billion emails every 24 hours are being sent and received (Source). It can…

One-click unsubscribe has always sounded like a myth. A simple button click and all future emails from a certain newsletter just disappear. We thought this sounded fantastic at Newton, so we decided to go ahead and create this. Starting today, with our latest release, you can now unsubscribe from annoying…

In the last 2 months since the Newton release, we have been busy shipping loads of bug fixes under the hood. Now we are ready with a host of improvements to the superchargers, a more secure Newton account and some nifty features that will make emailing stress-free. Let’s take a…

Story behind the visual transformation of CloudMagic to Newton Have any kind of email account thrown at it. Get it introduced to an iPhone or any android device, or even a Mac for that matter. Whichever way, you would end up with one thing for sure- a simple, minimal, pleasant…

Snoozing has been regarded as a procrastination tool for many years. Snoozes on our alarm clocks are being used every day to give us an extra 20-minutes in bed and even as reminders for activities. Snoozing delays activities for later. This, however, can be used as a feature for your…

The average American spends 6 hours of their day within email. The value of email is very high, but with all this time within email sometimes mistakes can occur. The majority of emailing now occurs on mobile devices with means more typos, more mistakes, more chances to mess up, especially with these smaller screens in our pockets. Within Newton Mail we…

The upside down story —