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SaneBox. Remember when you
signed up for your first email ad-
dress and could not wait to open
every single email you received?
Chances are that feeling of excite-
ment is gone as it is estimated that
the average business user sends and
receives around 120 emails per day.
SaneBox “restores sanity to your in-
box” by prioritizing the emails you
receive. Once you sign up, SaneBox
establishes a connection with your
email server and monitors your
incoming emails. The software then
analyzes your interactions with
email, so it can determine what is
important to you. When an email
comes into your inbox, SaneBox de-
termines if it is important and then
tells your email server to move it
to the right location. If the software
determines the email is not im-
portant, it sends it to a “SaneLater”
folder. This way, the only emails
in your inbox are those that truly
matter-no more “Save 50% Now”
emails in your inbox above a critical
work email. So you do not acciden-
tally miss something important, you
receive a daily digest summarizing
the emails in your SaneLater folder.
Worried about sharing your data?
Don’t be. SaneBox never reads the
body of any emails-it only analyzes
the data in the header. Additionally,
the emails never leave your email
provider’s server-SaneBox never
takes possession of them. SaneBox
is free for the first two weeks and
after that, it’s $7.00 per month.
My search for “timekeeping” on the
app store revealed literally hun-
dreds of timekeeping apps. Like
those hundreds of other apps,
RescueTime is a free app that acts
as a timekeeper-you can measure
time, pause, or quit at any time.
What makes RescueTime differ-
ent is that its focus is productivity.
You can block distracting sites, set
notifications to remind yourself
when you’ve spent too much time
on one task, and even set goals to
help keep you on track. Do you have
a problem with falling into internet
holes? You can set an alarm to tell
you when you have spent too much
time on, for example, Facebook or
Wikipedia. After you sign up, the
app sends you weekly detailed re-
ports showing which websites you
visited, apps you used, and how
productive you were.
L AWYER R EFERRAL
I NFORMATION S ERVICE
&
LRIS
REFER CALLS TO
Remember, if your firm
receives those occasional
calls regarding legal
issues that you do not
handle, refer them to the
Lawyer Referral and
Information Service.
404-521-0777
atlantabar.org
Benjamin Franklin once said: “for
every minute spent in organizing,
an hour is earned.” Had he been a
lawyer today, I’m sure he would edit
his quote to read: “for every minute
spent in organizing, a billable hour
is earned.” The technologies above
will help you get organized and stay
organized and hopefully lead to
a successful first-year of practice.
RescueTime. No article about es-
sential technologies for first-year
attorneys would be complete with-
out mentioning a timekeeping app.
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