Email is more cluttered, more overwhelming, and more frustrating than ever. HEY has redesigned it around an original, new philosophy called The HEY Way.
Like me, your current day email is likely full of other people’s demands on your time and attention. Anyone can email you without consent, marketers can track your behavior, and email providers can sell ads against your inbox. HEY is the company and product with interests aligned to mine and yours, to create control over who is emailing you, how you read your email without the eyes of a marketer watching, and free of ads.
HEY is available on the web, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. HEY is its own platform and a full email service provider. You can sign up and receive your own @hey.com email address. Then, any time someone new emails you they will land in The Screener; this area allows you to decide if ‘Yes’ they’re in and able to email you or ‘No’ and they’re out forever. If you say ‘Yes’ the email then goes one of three places; important emails immediately go to The Imbox, non-urgent emails that you read occasionally, like newsletters, will go to The Feed, and emails that you rarely read, like receipts, will go to The Paper Trail. There is also a ‘Reply Later’ button, which will move emails to a stack at the bottom of the screen in order to stick around but stay out of your way until you have time for them. When you have time, you can click the ‘Focus & Reply’ button to line up your stack and work through your replies.
There are various features in HEY aiming to make your email a better, more manageable place that you are in control of. You can clip emails or add sticky notes for easy searching, push notifications are turned off by default to decrease email noisiness, plus blocks to spy tracking, updated signature options, and the removal of unread counts to decrease stress. To learn more about HEY and your email options, plus a new calendar option, visit here for all the details.