Calmer Inbox Ahead

Work, company and personal Gmail side by side, each with its own colour, instead of switching accounts. Reply from the right address without thinking about it.

Unread and what needs a reply, today's events from every calendar, tasks due, people you are waiting on, and your mail activity, all before you open a single message.

Open an invitation and see your whole day beside it, from all your accounts, with clashes named. Accept, Maybe or Decline right there, with a note if you like, in one step.

Your phone system's voicemail plays right in the list or the message, no download. Play all goes through the unheard ones, oldest first, marking each read as you hear it. Unheard voicemail waits just above your priority senders' mail, and Badge › Voicemail finds them later.

Blu Star's tickets and your Zendesk desks' are read from the emails they send: each carries its ticket's badge and title, and Tickets lists them one to a row. Add one to your tasks or wait on it, raise a feature request as an Issue, and when a ticket you wait on closes, GoHelm says it's time to tell the customer. It never changes a ticket.

Star a person, and their unread mail gets its own Priority list in the sidebar to work to zero, can lead your inbox (a switch in Settings), and shows on your Today page.

Suggested from your own mail, previewed against every message they would touch, and undoable after they run.

Suggestions such as High priority, Needs reply and Quick, each with a one-line reason, Draft with AI when you ask for it, Ask AI to sum up a long email, total a proposal or list its options, and, if you switch it on, reading interests that learn from the newsletter links you click and mark the ones you will want. Marked as AI, never mistaken for fact.

Every account's calendar in a day, three days, the work week or the whole week (Sunday to Saturday), opening on the one you choose in Settings, with free time marked. Click an event for its notes, guests, place and video link without leaving GoHelm; drag tasks into the day; create events with guests from your contacts, an online meeting (Google Meet, or your saved Zoom or GoTo meeting, with a warning if it is already booked), a meeting room in any of your companies with whether it is free, or both for a hybrid meeting, and Google Calendar's repeats, from “Weekly on Tuesday” to “every 2 weeks on Monday and Friday, 6 times”; put one event on several of your calendars by ticking them, accepted on each and with no emails to yourself; move, edit and cancel the ones you organize, with their copies following (for a repeating one, this event, this and following, or the series, as Google asks), with guests asked before anyone is emailed. Plan › Rooms shows your company's rooms through the day; choose a free slot to book one. Location suggests your favorite places (Home, the cabin, the stadium lot), your rooms, places you've met before and real addresses from OpenStreetMap, with a star to save one as a favorite.

Write a line on a conversation saying what it really wants, when its subject does not: it leads the row in your list, sits at the top of the email, and search finds it. Yours alone, kept in GoHelm and never sent to AI.

Task It, in one click or Shift + T: Reply needed, Read later, Print later, To do, Waiting on them or Urgent. The email is marked read and the task keeps it on your list, with Open email, Reply and Done; replying closes a Reply needed task by itself. Type dates as you would say them (“Call Lance next tue 3pm”, “Pay rent every month on the 1st”), repeat a task on a schedule or a set time after it is done, add a checklist and make any step its own task, and find tasks by person, company, project, label or date, saving the searches you use. Still being proven in daily use.

Give a task a reminder: on a day, at a time, or a few days before it is due, and on the follow-up date of something you are waiting on. It rings on your computer and phone with GoHelm closed, with Done and Snooze right on the notification, and opens the task when tapped. Quiet hours hold reminders until morning, unless you mark one critical. The bell shows what is coming, what rang and on which devices, and anything missed.

An optional toolkit, off unless you turn it on: quarterly Rocks with a measurable finish line, your own on-track report and the tasks that move each one forward; Issues worked through Identify, Discuss, Solve, with the decision kept; To-Dos due at your next weekly meeting that are ordinary tasks everywhere else; and a short weekly review. Your own for now; teams come later.

All puts Mail, Chat, your calendar and your tasks in four quadrants, Mail the biggest, top left, where the eye starts. Drag the lines between them, shrink one to its title bar or expand one to fill the screen. Open a message and it takes the list's place; Esc or u brings the subjects back. Chat lists your unread conversations first, then the people you messaged most recently, the likeliest next; open one to read and reply right there. Plan is your calendar for the day, to open, move and make events in; Tasks is what matters today, with Done and Plan. Drag a task onto the calendar to plan it, an email onto Tasks to make it a task, or an email onto the calendar to start a meeting about it.

In a phone's browser GoHelm lays itself out for the screen: Today, Email, Plan and Chat along the bottom, the list or the message rather than both squeezed side by side, a swipe to the next or previous email, and wide newsletters scaled to fit. All's four quadrants stay on the computer, where they fit.

Direct messages, group chats and spaces from your Workspace accounts, in the same window. Start a chat with one person or several, or a named space, and manage who is in the spaces you run.

A video or document shared from Google Drive opens in Drive's own player inside the message.

One click where the sender allows it. When a form asks for your address, GoHelm shows and copies the one they actually used, even an alias such as todd@ that reaches tleyse@. Then trash everything else from that sender in one go.

Archive, Trash, Spam, mark read or unread, label or unsubscribe straight from the list, one at a time or in bulk, without reading what you already know you don't want.

Shown on first use and one ? away after that: j and k to move, e to archive, # to trash, ! for spam, r to reply. Archive and the next conversation opens, so clearing an inbox is e, e, e.

from:jason has:attachment older_than:30d and the rest go to Gmail's own search, archived mail included. Advanced search writes them for you, can search the subject alone, and can match case, which Gmail's own search cannot.

Turn on sections and the inbox reads priority senders, Unread, Starred, then everything else, each collapsible. Stars show on every row in Gmail's own colours, a click cycles them as Gmail does, and Starred filters by colour.

With nothing open, the list fills the screen, a line or two per message, so filtering and bulk work see three times as much.

By sender, by person in any role, by badge (AI or rule), by label, by date, with attachments, and they all combine.

Choose whether opening marks a message read: immediately, after 3 seconds (so skimming with j and k marks nothing), or never.

A pop-up from your computer when a chat or mail from a priority sender arrives, even while you work in other apps or on another screen, as long as GoHelm is open in a tab. Who it is from, not what it says, unless you choose.

Archive, Trash, Spam, labels, read state and rules all undo, and every send counts down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 first.

A message, or a whole conversation without the history each reply repeats, followed by its PDF and picture attachments, all in one print job: the conference email and its three PDFs, ready for the travel folder. Set emails aside with Print later while away, then print them all at once when you are back.

Write it now and have it go out tomorrow at 8, from any of your mailboxes, replies and attachments included.

Snooze a conversation back to the top later, and find everyone you have corresponded with across every account.