How to create a customized inbox pause schedule
Want to disconnect during Work Hours and get email notifications during specific times per day? Or, are you hoping to create Focus Time while also disconnecting from email outside of work? Boomerang's powerful new Inbox Pause features give you the ability to combine these features however you desire.
How to customize your Inbox Pause schedule
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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
Mix and Match.
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Tap
Add Action as needed. From there, you can choose specific times to: Pause your Inbox, Batch Delivery of Emails, or Unpause your Inbox. Repeat as desired for the appropriate days and times.
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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 Inbox Pause schedule configured just the way you like it, tap
Turn On Mix and Match 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!
