Unroll.me: A useful email segregation service

Courtesy: Unroll.me
This post takes a break (sort of) from points, miles and offers, which are otherwise the theme of this blog. But there's a connection nonetheless!

Now I'm not a technology guy - far from it - but ever since I got into the points and miles game, I've always wished for something that could help me track all related emails in one place, so that I don't have to open each mail or web-page. Feeds help only to some extent, as do news aggregation sites like the erstwhile Google Reader and its replacement The Old Reader. Quick reads like FB page posts or tweets only help to some extent, and usually there's much more important stuff that needs to be accessed within links.

Which is why I'm beginning to like Unroll.me's news service.

I'm not sure why nobody else thought of this before, but in effect it is an email aggregation service. You sign up on their website and provide your email ID as well as an authorisation to work on your email account. Then you decide which of your emails / subscriptions you'd like to "Roll up", and which ones you want to unsubscribe from. Then the ones you roll up are presented to you like a preview, in ONE email, with multiple boxes (but they don't appear as separate mails for you to file / delete individually). If you want to access a specific email in detail, you just click on the link below the summary, and voila!, the mail is there to be read. The service also automatically aggregate and present all rolled up emails by category, which is even better!

Here's an example:



You can also change your subscriptions and roll up contents as often as you like - there's no limit. Given the number of emails I have to go through in a day, particularly travel based ones, I find Unroll.me's service almost Yeoman in its qualities! Why "almost"? Well, I'd really like to see if they can update the service functionality, to provide different roll up lists - so then I could keep one each for hotels, airlines, and some of the other subscriptions that I have.

Have you tried out Unroll.me? What's your opinion?

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