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Take control of your inbox

Make your email communications more productive with Spark

IT WILL TAKE

45 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN

How to take control

of your email inbox

using Spark

YOU’LL NEED

Spark for macOS

There’s no shortage of email

apps to choose from on the

Mac, and with Apple’s own mail

app getting a decent upgrade

in Catalina, you might wonder why you’d

bother with anything else. Well, in Spark’s

case, the answer is productivity.

Whether it’s customising smart inboxes to

surface important messages, collaborating on

a draft message with a team, delegating

messages, or using actions to move them,

Spark has a ton of features to help.

Spark is also available on iOS and iPadOS,

so you can sync messages with your iPhone

and iPad. Spark also allows you to create

template messages so that if you have

emails you send regularly, you don’t have

to write them from scratch each time. It

has a customisable Gmail-style Quick Reply

feature, and you can add smart folders to filter

incoming email. Spark is free to download and

use, but if you need to collaborate with more

than a couple of people, there’s a premium

upgrade designed for teams. Kenny Hemphill

HOW TO Do more with your mail

1

Customise Smart inbox

Click on the Spark menu and choose

Preferences, then General. Select Smart Inbox.

Choose which cards you want to enable on

the left. Choose an action from the bottom.

Choose which account it should apply to.

2

Create a team

In Preferences, choose Teams > Create

New Team. Give it a name and press Create a

Team. Click on Manage Team & Profile. On the

Team Preferences page, click Members, then

Add Members to add your teammates.

Genius tip!

You can change the

category of an email by

clicking on the menu

and the top right of a

message and choosing

from the list of options,

such as Personal

or Newsletter.

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