SaneBox is this week’s MacSparky sponsor. There’s a lot of email going around, and SaneBox and its A.I. helps me keep focused on actionable emails and takes the work of filtering what does not need to be read right now.

One of the ways SaneBox does this is with the @SaneCC. It’s a filtering folder. What goes in there? It’s the emails I’m CC’ed on. It just makes sense to me. When I’m not on the “To:” line, that means the email isn’t necessarily an actionable item, more like I’m included on the information, a sort of FYI. So do I have to read it RIGHT NOW? No, and that’s the beauty of SaneBox. Once I’ve trained @SaneCC, I can go to this folder and read these emails later when I have the time to read them.

But SaneBox doesn’t just work for me, it works with me. If there’s an email from someone who is Inbox-worthy, I can train SaneBox to put the email from them into my Inbox, even though I’m CC’ed because I can control @SaneCC from my Trainings list. Once a sender is trained, SaneBox knows to let this sender gets to pass through the velvet rope into my Inbox.

If you’re curious how to get SaneBox identify your important messages, hide distractions, banish annoying senders, remind you to follow up and more, now is the time to try it out. You can sign up for a free trial and get a $10 credit you can use towards a SaneBox subscription.

I’m excited that this week’s sponsor, TextExpander, is about to release version 7. I’ve written and talked a lot about TextExpander. It instantly insert snippets of text that you’ve saved as abbreviations in order to streamline and speed up everything you type. What’s new with the upcoming 7.0 version is that it:

• Updates and unifies the user experience

• Improves main window search

• Improves performance and responsiveness

• Improves conflict management

• Broadens accessibility

• Has other fixes and improvements.

TextExpander 7 is expected soon and is already in the app’s beta channel. If you’re currently a user, you can check “include beta builds” in TextExpander’s Update preference tab to be prompted to update to the public beta. This is going to be a popular update.

My thanks to this week’s sponsor, TextExpander. TextExpander allows me and my team to work faster and smarter. I’ve got a team of people I work with and one of those people is an assistant. By using TextExpander, we can use shared snippets to keep us on message. I can manage and share snippets so she can easily and accurately answer some of the more common questions with just a few keystrokes. And I can style our snippet text and add images and links, which she can then easily personalize and edit when and how she needs to.

TextExpander gives us the ability to streamline and speed up what we type, which makes it easier for a productive Team MacSparky to to get our work done. Redeem an offer from TextExpander for 20% off and try for yourself how you and your team can say more with less work.

This week’s sponsor at MacSparky is TextExpander. With TextExpander, you create snippets, whether it’s a word, a phrase, a sentence or longer. Once you save that snippet with a short abbreviation, you can, with few keystrokes rather than typing your snippet out, quickly insert the text you want anywhere you type. 

There are some words and phrases that I can’t get my fingers to type correctly, or I don’t remember the correct spelling or where the accent mark goes. With TextExpander at my fingertips, I never have to worry about this. For instance, I like saying, “Forget about it,” but what I really mean is, “Fuhgeddaboudit!” I cannot remember how to spell that. I use four keystrokes and TextExpender pops in the 14-letter word. I’m lucky that MacSparky’s worldwide, and sometimes, I like to say thanks back in another language. There’s a Thanks group in my TextExpander library so I never have to look that up since I just keep (and update) TextExpander snippets on how to say, “Thank you.” 감사합니다, TextExpander.

TextExpander helps you work faster and smarter so you can focus your time on your most important work. Get 20% off TextExpander and get ready to minimize effort and maximize productivity.

Make no mistake, Daylite isn’t just a CRM tool, it’s a Mac CRM tool. It isn’t for everyone, it’s for us. It’s for Mac people. People who ‘get’ that thinking exclusively and holistically about small business is actually thinking big. 

Just like a Mac, Daylite is an intuitive way of instantly integrating your Apple calendar and Apple mail, reminders, notes, tasks and more. Online, offline, wherever, it’s completely shareable with any Mac user and accessible from any macOS or iOS device. Daylite allows you to minimize the juggling of accounts, tasks and projects while maximizing leads, customer relationships and profits.

At once, your small business has everything you and your team expect from a leading CRM tool while having the stress-relieving perks you’d only expect from a made-for-Mac app. Name one other CRM app with the productivity-boosting power to seamlessly work well with Apple integration. 

It’s Daylite. Learn more. 

Have you ever want to banish someone into a black hole? You can with SaneBox, this week’s MacSparky sponsor. If you don’t want to hear from a sender again, or want to unsubscribe from a list without having to unsubscribe from a list, SaneBox will do the dirty work for you. 

The SaneBlackHole is the folder for training emails to your trash. You’ll move messages into this folder, and SaneBox will learn that all future emails from these senders go to the trash. 

Sometimes, unsubscribing from an email list can do more harm than good. Depending on the list you’re trying to remove yourself from, because you’ve identified yourself as a real person by unsubscribing, you may have opened yourself up to even more junk mail coming your way. Anything that comes from these senders in the future will be put directly into the SaneBlackHole, so you don’t even have to bother with unsubscribing.

Banish your email to the SaneBlackHole. And if you do make a mistake, you can just move the email out of your SaneBlackHole folder to the correct Sane folder. If you’re thinking about giving SaneBox a try, now’s a great time. You can sign up for your free trial, and you’ll get a $10 credit you can use towards a SaneBox subscription.

I’d like to thank TextExpander for sponsoring the site this week. TextExpander allows you to be more efficient and productive by taking the task of repetitive typing out of your hands. With TextExpander, you can use a keyboard shortcut or abbreviation to insert a snippet. Are you still hunting and searching and copying and pasting that thing you once typed out in email you once sent that would be a perfect reply to the email you’re currently composing? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Once you come up with your perfect response, be it a phrase, a sentence, or a paragraph, you’ve already created your snippet. Just save it in TextExpander, and then the next time you want to use it, type the shortcut or abbreviation, and see the snippet you created automatically expand your text. Do less repetitive typing and tasks by letting TextExpander do the work for you. TextExpander wants you to work smarter, not harder, and they’re offering MacSparky readers 20% off, so try for yourself today. 

This week MacSparky is sponsored by one of my favorite Mac utilities, BetterTouchTool. Apple’s built-in gestures for its mice and trackpads are great, but they don’t go far enough. With BetterTouchTool, you can add an entire suite of gestures to your mouse and trackpad for just the apps and actions that you need.

Do you want to move between tabs in Safari by swiping or tapping your trackpad? BetterTouchTool does that. want to put your Mac to sleep with a custom trackpad gesture? BetterTouchTool does that to. BetterTouchTool lets you hot-wire your trackpad and mouse. BetterTouchTool additionally contains some handy features like window snapping, a clipboard manager, a screenshot editor, and much more. This app is an absolute game-changer. Also, you can now join the BetterTouchTool Community at community.folivora.ai to learn how to get even more from BetterTouchTool. Users have shared some amazing presets there, including some very advanced custom Touch Bar setups that you should check out.

BetterTouchTool comes with a 45-day trial after which you can choose between a license that includes all updates for two years and a lifetime license. BetterTouchTool has been around for ten years, and I’ve been using it the entire time. With BetterTouchTool, I can make my Mac dance. You should too. MacSparky readers can purchase BetterTouchTool for 15% off at checkout by using the coupon code MACSPARKYBTT for a limited time. So don’t delay. Go to folivora.ai to learn more and take advantage of the special limited-time, 15% discount on BetterTouchTool.

If you’re a smallish business (up to 100 people), operating in a macOS or iOS environment, there’s a less-clunky, native Mac option that will certainly “check” all the usual CRM boxes while providing those uniquely intuitive and stress-relieving features that have become the exclusive domain of the Apple community. 

It’s Daylite.

From identifying that first seed of a lead to landing the business and the repeat business, Daylite stays with you and your team for the entire customer lifecycle. And all the resources are at your fingertips, online or offline on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.

In a Mac-inspired way, Daylite expands the definition of CRM and boosts your team’s productivity while reducing the steps and time spent searching, merging and typing. As a bonus, you can integrate Apple calendars, Apple Mail and Reminders, Siri and more. Online or offline, on any Mac device, to and from any Mac user, Daylite is the Mac-minded way of keeping your business, your team and yourself moving forward — fast-forward. Check it out here.

I’m always looking for things to help me save time, which is one of the reasons I dig TextExpander, MacSparky’s sponsor this week. TextExpander puts time-saving power at your fingertips. You set up a shortcut once, and then future you thanks you for having less work to do and saving some time. Instead of re-typing the same thing over and over again or copying and pasting a message or reply, use a few keystrokes with TextExpander and see TextExpander expand your snippets. For instance, if I type, “xdts” (four tippety-types), TextExpander will put a date and time string that looks like this: 2021-07-08 09:10. Dashes and colon and 16 tippet-types !?! Time saved. I didn’t have to stop and look at a calendar or clock for reference. I just hit a few keys, and, whoomp, there it is.

And you can do this anywhere you type because you can get your snippets on all your devices. Convenient, accurate, and consistent. TextExpander helps you communicate easier, and you get to focus on what matters most. If you’re even TextExpander-curious, now is the time to try it because they’re offering 20% off your first year.