A new personal productivity application called Ocean is start To help you sort your overloaded incoming, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one application.
Today, Gmail is very much dominated by the e -mail market that emerges a few challengers. Understanding this, Ocean decided to work with Gmail, not compete against him. As a third -party customer, acquiring base on the market may be difficult, but successful email applications have proven lucrative acquisitions. Yahoo bought the Xobni email app for $ 60 million and Microsoft broke the fact for $ 200 million in the previous decade, for example.
This market opportunity attracted co -founders Martin Douri and Lake Scott -A Shopify’s first co-founder-created Bigwave Labs At the beginning of 2019 and began to face e -mail. This project eventually led to the ocean, an application that focused on more e -mail management. (Scott now works as more than the financial supporter of the application and the consultant, says Dufort.)
The app works with Gmail or Google Workspace accounts, allowing users to convert their e -mails into work and action information so that they are not forgotten.
To do this project, the application includes its own task management that has access to the user’s email. This means that you do not need to copy or paste information to an external obligations application, while gaining access to features that go beyond what offers Google Gmail users.
With the ocean, you can create tasks using rich formatting, set up dates, organize work on folders and connect emails to your work notes. It can also automatically pull action items from larger emails for you.
You can choose to manage the emails you mean to answer later by creating a job instead of leaving them unknown or applying a label of some kind.
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For the enthusiastic incoming zero, the characteristic Killer will be Ocean’s Triage Inbox tools.
The app allows you to filter your emails by categories such as the first timers (people who sent you by e -mail for the first time), persistent pingers (people who send you to email) and emails from your contacts. Even surface emails are marked as unwanted messages, but may belong to your inbox, so you don’t miss anything important.
Ocean also offers subscription management tools – a Gmail feature has recently been added – in addition to basic email composition, answer, labeling, archiving and e -mail features.
In addition, Ocean offers built -in meeting planning tools that allow you to set your availability based on your pending and reservation. Here, you can adjust your open times and block others from booking these meetings at the last minute, which is a handy trick.
You can also send an automated email invitation to the meeting recipients, confirm meeting suggestions from a web interface and add automatically confirmed meetings to your calendar.
THE App iphone ocean It has just begun, but a new Mac application is found in projects that will include iCloud Sync. The team expects to start this by the end of the year. The company aims to create revenue through its non -repetitive member, Ocean Blue, which costs $ 67. Participation includes one year’s value updates with new features and features. It will also offer access to the Mac application when it arrives.
“I think people are a bit tired of repetitive subscriptions,” Dufort explains. “We wanted to get away from it, but to provide a model that would be viable for us, so we decided to determine this property of ocean blue, the app is basically a freemium model – you take the basic functions for free forever,” he continues. “[The membership] Push us also to make sure we offer value to this application as we move forward, “he adds.
Blue members will also include AI email summary features and email information.
Interested users can first put the ocean in the test with a 14 -day free trial that does not automatically convert you to a payment subscriber.
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