Email Survival Guide

This week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about the 10+ email apps they’ve used over the years and how their strategies for dealing with recent spikes in email volume has caused them to change their approaches.

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Email Survival Guide
Apps and Services Mentioned
• Spark (sparkmailapp.com)

• Mimestream (mimestream.com)

• Superhuman (superhuman.com)

• Shortwave (shortwave.com)

• Missive (missiveapp.com)

• Airmail (airmailapp.com)

• Hey (hey.com)

• SaneBox (sanebox.com)

• Clean Email (clean.email)

• Dispatch (macstories.net/reviews/dispatch-a-new-email-cl…)

• Mailbox (macstories.net/reviews/a-month-with-mailbox)

• Inbox (macstories.net/news/google-approaches-email-in…) by Gmail

• Mailplane (macstories.net/reviews/mailplane-review)

AI and Automation Tools
• Claude Code (anthropic.com/product/claude-code)

• OpenAI Codex (openai.com/codex)

• Raycast (raycast.com)

• Notion (notion.so)

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