How to set up Focus Time with Inbox Pause
With Boomerang's Inbox Pause feature, you can now schedule focus time in your workday to get through important tasks without those email notifications sidetracking you. Every time you get interrupted by an email notification, it can take up to 20 minutes to regain focus, so this feature is perfect for when you need to put your head down and focus on a presentation or to get through the emails already in your Inbox.
How to set up Focus Time with Inbox Pause
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Tap the
Menu Icon on the top left corner of our Android app.
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Tap
Inbox Pause.
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Tap
Focus Time.
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Input the time period you want to focus and which days you want to focus. If you want to add additional periods of Focus Time, tap
Add Focus Time.
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Adjust the
Pause Settings as needed, enabling or disabling and customizing any of the following features:
Auto-reply message: Set up an automatic response to any recipients who may email you while your Inbox Pause letting them know when you expect to get back to them.
Delivery exceptions: Whitelist messages sent with high importance, specific email addresses (e.g. supervisors, execs, etc.), domains (e.g. important clients, your teammates, etc.), and/or words (e.g. "urgent," "time-sensitive," etc.) so that you still get the important emails while your Inbox is paused.
Hide label (Gmail only): While your Inbox is paused, incoming emails will get stored in the Inbox-Paused-[Date] label that we automatically generate for you until you unpause your Inbox. If you're still having trouble avoiding looking at the number go up on that folder, you can enable this setting to bury the label so it's less distracting.
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Once you've got your settings configured just the way you like it, tap
Turn On Focus Time to confirm. You'll get an email letting you know your Inbox pause schedule has been activated, and you can unpause at any time via the link in that email--even if the device doesn't have Boomerang installed!
