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If there’s one thing Mac users are blessed with, it’s a variety of great email apps. In fact, depending on the day, I’ll often flit between the Gmail web app, Mimestream, Spark, and Outlook for work.As we covered last year, Notion’s AI-adjacent Notion Mail tried to do some cool things. Sadly, it seemingly didn’t find an audience, with its developer deprecating the app soon because it believes more people use agentic AI to manage their inbox without opening the app.And honestly? I was a little bummed. Notion Mail had a unique UI that felt right at home next to the company’s main app and Notion Calendar. And, while browsing my inbox, I spotted an email from the team at Slashy that might just fill the gap.Slashy doesn’t want you to open your inbox
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A quick glance at Slashy will show that it’s definitely cut from a similar cloth to Notion Mail. For one, its clean design makes it a looker — it’s easy to navigate, with options for highlighting important emails or everything.What makes it unique is that Slashy will attempt to learn from a user’s emails and reply frequency to highlight what’s important, and use their voice to make responses feel more natural.If that sounds dystopian, then yes, you’re not alone. I had the same thought, and we’ll touch on how successful it is in that regard in a moment. But, as someone swamped with press releases daily (not a complaint, keep ‘em coming!) I was impressed by how well Slashy categorises and labels my emails.In many ways, it feels akin to Notion Mail’s labels, but Slashy wants you to handle your email from a distance, if at all. It automatically runs scheduling workflows to help identify meeting times, and can lean into Model Context Protocol (MCP) to tie in nicely with Claude, something I’m yet to fully get to grips with.Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips.All of this is to say it’s an email app that looks great, and yet it wants you to leave its processes to handle your inbox - and it does so remarkably well.With zero setup, it pulled through a bunch of handy contact info, complete with contextual history, for more than 20 people I’d emailed in recent weeks. It also highlighted my scheduling, including the days I work in a London office and when I’m home, and when my upcoming vacation is.Put simply, it knows me better than I know myself.“Your voice, not GPT slop”
