Introducing Recap. — We designed Newton to take the stress out of emailing. We made it distraction-free so that you can scan, find, read and write better. We made it a breeze to use the app; with intuitive UI, simple one-way navigations and familiar keyboard shortcuts. …

A tale of 2 videos — Rohit and Francesco are our in-house video makers. While Rohit makes product videos like this and this, Francesco makes instructional videos like this and this. During the iOS calendar launch, I wanted Francesco to make a light hearted video to show how it’s better to place the cal app icon on the right side of the email app icon. I wanted it to be a chaplinesque short movie (No dialogues, only background music, exaggerated expressions, fast running etc). Francesco was travelling, so instead of shooting a video he quickly put together something using Giphy and sent me this…

Whoa. Déjà vu. —

People retire from work at the age of 60. Why not politicians? And there is nothing I can do about it? I pay income tax on my hard earned salary. Why should I again pay tax when I spend my money post tax? Instead why not abolish income tax and…

Superficially, the two seem bad together. — Last week we introduced True Inbox on Newton. Now on, when you start a new email conversation in Newton, you’ll see it right in Inbox. Thus making the Inbox the only list you have to deal with for managing your conversations. OMG, this means more mails in Inbox for me…

True Inbox, Link back to Newton in Connected Apps — All Platforms True Inbox — When you start a new conversation, you’ll see it in Inbox. There’s no need to go to Sent folder anymore. Learn More. Open in Newton — When you add mails to Connected Apps, it will also pass a link to open the conversation back in Newton, on…

It was a remnant of the past. — Long ago, email clients worked by periodically checking a mail-box on the server and downloading email using a protocol called POP. Once the mail was downloaded, it was deleted from the server and was shown in a folder called Inbox in the client. The client also had folders like Drafts…

We recently hit 40,000 subscribers. It took 18 months; it was not easy. Just wanted to tell our users that you are not alone in paying for an email app. Just like any other product you use that comes for a price. The recent FB fiasco only confirms that when you’re not paying, you’re the product. In a sea of free email apps, we were the first to take the bold step. So, thank you for voting with your wallet. We think that is the ultimate form of approval.

How we built a smaller solution for a seemingly big problem — Over the years, we had several users asking for a Team version of Newton. Instead of jumping into conclusions and building product features, we probed more to understand more about these teams and what they were missing. We found out that a lot of them were very small teams, mostly…