Your top New Year’s resolution? Get Organized!

December 28 2010, 7:19pm

Whoa… The holidays have taken their toll and we are all recovering from the food, family and fun overload that is the week between Christmas and New Years. Right about now, we start looking around ourselves…. Assessing and taking inventory of all that is around us.“What if this year I stopped doing that one thing?” or“What if this year I started doing this other thing?”That’s right, I’m talking about New Year’s Resolutions!You know those annual commitments nearly half of us make and then 80% of us abandon them like the strawberry pink in a carton of Neopolitan ice cream. Well, it turns out we are pretty susceptible to the idea of a fresh start, a new dawn, the next page, a clean slate, a new carton of Neopolitan ice cream. Oh, we’ll set out with the best intentions alright, determined to better ourselves against all odds, temptations and roadblocks. Fired up, we’ll compare our New Year changes with others over black eyed peas. How we will resolve to lose something, gain something or begin something all anew! But by February or even mid-January, those lucky peas wear off. Most of us will ditch our grand schemes because the human animal is at best, comfortable and at worst, stubborn!For those of us who want to get more focused in the new year, more organized, it can be a real struggle. It’s easiest to just keep about our business and accept that our workspace, calendar and usually our inbox is in perpetual disarray, never knowing the bliss of the organizer’s mantra: “A place for everything and everything in it’s place.”Well, we think the problem is simple….we can all use a hand! A digital assistant!What if there was indeed an “app for that?” A tool that worked in the background and ensured you were keeping at least one of your resolutions intact. Again,  a digital assistant!Well, that app, tool, assistant is our very own Organizer! Organizer is the absolute best at finding a place for all of those emails that just are not that important…. but are! Receipts, coupons, shipping notices, newsletters, updates, follows, likes and all the stuff we sign up for as we surf the web are placed in their categorized folders, automatically!Then, like an unpaid intern or a high paid assistant, we’ll send you a Daily Digest of your email activity so you can quickly scan it on your own time. (Likely with tea and crumpets, coffee and danish or, if you are in Austin, perhaps a red bull and breakfast taco.)

Your Organizer “assistant” will highlight the most important things in your digest by placing them right up on top! What a great help Organizer turned out to be. (You didn’t even need Craigslist!)Oh noes!- What if you are being hassled by a newsletter you no longer want, read or need? Well, your Organizer “assistant” has got that covered too.By simply placing something in your OIB Unsubscribe Folder, you are asking your Organizer “assistant” to contact that sender and politely request they stop sending you correspondence! That’s it. You’ve just sent a cease and desist letter in one click.Kinda nice to have an “assistant” who is knowledgeable in FTC CAN-SPAM laws huh? =)So, keep that New Year’s resolution to get organized! It’s easy with Organizer. Let’s quickly recap!1- Resolve to get Organized!2- Sign up for Organizer.3- Let Organizer do it’s thing on your funky inbox. TIP- Clean up your workspace while Organizer scans and moves things into place.4- Move the email you no longer want to receive into your new OIB/Unsubscribe folder.5- Tell everyone how you stuck to it this year and enjoy your new, organized inbox!What else will you resolve to change? How about improving your Google search?Fill us in! We want to know how you made your New Year’s resolutions stick in 2011….Email us at help@otherinbox.com, ping us at @OtherInbox on twitter or hook up on Facebook. See ya next year!