How to best review my Daily Digest?
Daily Digest offered by Mailman is your new low-priority inbox. All emails from unknown senders are held back by Mailman in your Daily Digest. Then, once a day, in the evening, Mailman reminds you of to go through the Daily Digest and see if there are any keepers.
Reviewing your Daily Digest once a day teaches Mailman how to handle your incoming emails. On average, after 14 days of daily reviewing Mailman knows enough about your inbox that you can review your digest only twice or thrice in a week.
Your Daily Digest looks like this:
Various actions can be taken on each email in your Daily Digest depending upon how valuable is it to you.
If the email is of value to you, and you'd want to receive all future emails from them, you'd want to click the Allow button next to them.
If the email is not something you'd want to see in your inbox in the future ever, you'd want to click the Block button next to them. This would make sure that you never get to see another email from them in your inbox.
The above two actions are extremes. Occasionally you'd find yourself in a situation where somebody has sent you something of value (eg. a very valuable cold-email), but you don't want to either allow them forever or block them forever. For situations like this, you'd want to click the subject line of the email, and it'll show the full email and some more actions available.
This will show you the full email that allows you to make a better decision of Allowing or Blocking them. If you want to respond to them for just this one time, click on the Deliver once button.
Mailman will deliver just that one thread to your inbox right away and will continue to hold back future emails from them in your Daily Digest.
Very occasionally, you'd also come across situations where you'd not want to take any of the above actions of them. These are the emails that are mostly notifications from the services you use.
So, you'd like to simply ignore them for now and would like to continue to see them in your Daily Digest in the future.
To do this, just hit the Mark as reviewed button and clear out your Daily Digest.
As you can see in Option 4 above, Mailman allows you to take bulk actions on the emails in your Daily Digest as well.
All you'd need to do is use the checkbox on the left side to select the emails and then either click Allow... or Block... in the top menu that appears afterward.
That's how to use your Daily Digest as your low-priority inbox.
Reviewing your Daily Digest once a day teaches Mailman how to handle your incoming emails. On average, after 14 days of daily reviewing Mailman knows enough about your inbox that you can review your digest only twice or thrice in a week.
Your Daily Digest looks like this:
Various actions can be taken on each email in your Daily Digest depending upon how valuable is it to you.
Option 1: If an email is valuable
If the email is of value to you, and you'd want to receive all future emails from them, you'd want to click the Allow button next to them.
Option 2: If an email is unwanted
If the email is not something you'd want to see in your inbox in the future ever, you'd want to click the Block button next to them. This would make sure that you never get to see another email from them in your inbox.
Option 3: If you want to see what the sender has to say
The above two actions are extremes. Occasionally you'd find yourself in a situation where somebody has sent you something of value (eg. a very valuable cold-email), but you don't want to either allow them forever or block them forever. For situations like this, you'd want to click the subject line of the email, and it'll show the full email and some more actions available.
This will show you the full email that allows you to make a better decision of Allowing or Blocking them. If you want to respond to them for just this one time, click on the Deliver once button.
Mailman will deliver just that one thread to your inbox right away and will continue to hold back future emails from them in your Daily Digest.
Option 4: If you want to just ignore
Very occasionally, you'd also come across situations where you'd not want to take any of the above actions of them. These are the emails that are mostly notifications from the services you use.
So, you'd like to simply ignore them for now and would like to continue to see them in your Daily Digest in the future.
To do this, just hit the Mark as reviewed button and clear out your Daily Digest.
Bulk Actions
As you can see in Option 4 above, Mailman allows you to take bulk actions on the emails in your Daily Digest as well.
All you'd need to do is use the checkbox on the left side to select the emails and then either click Allow... or Block... in the top menu that appears afterward.
That's how to use your Daily Digest as your low-priority inbox.
Updated on: 03/08/2021
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