Timyo helps teams be more productive

Here at Timyo, we have a great team that just happens to be spread out across the globe. Since we don’t always have the luxury of just poking our heads over a cubicle and shouting a request to our teammates, we need to make sure that we are very clear with our communications. When we started building Timyo we wanted to solve many of email’s problems. We are very busy people and just like every other busy person out there, we receive (and send) a ton of email every day. So, while we have been busy solidifying Timyo’s core features, we… Continue reading Timyo helps teams be more productive

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How our last update helps your email with personalization and automation

There has been a lot of news lately about “AI”, “Machine Learning”, and “Deep Learning” – okay, so maybe not in “everyday” news, but in the news that I (and many other geeks like me) follow, and there are huge steps being made in these areas of study. It’s an exciting time to put your trust in robots! …or at least cede some control to our inevitable robot overlords. The addition of a simple tool But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. These robots still have some serious learning and tweaking to do before they can think for… Continue reading How our last update helps your email with personalization and automation

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Timyo gets better at helping you through the day with to-dos

Today is the day. I know today is the day, because when I look at the “Today” tab on my Timyo app, I can clearly see the “My To-do” that I assigned to myself for this day and date last week. It says right there in the summary of my to-do, “Write new blog post explaining how Timyo now helps with To-dos and keeps getting better with each update.”, so I know that today is the day. Thanks, Timyo! Part of what we want to accomplish with Timyo is to help our users manage their time better any way that… Continue reading Timyo gets better at helping you through the day with to-dos

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Multiple email accounts, much greater speed and more personalization!

When a new app launches, unless it’s from a big company with a very large team and very deep pockets, that app has had many features pared back, simplified, or axed completely. And even if that app was created by a big company, I can pretty much guarantee that it is still missing some features that are planned for future versions. The basics of gardening As the head of a product, you have a vision of what you want your product to be and you can see way down the road to the beautiful flower that you know is going… Continue reading Multiple email accounts, much greater speed and more personalization!

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Plugin to the future of email

So, did you know that Timyo has a plugin for Gmail on Chrome? Some people do, some don’t, but to be honest, we haven’t really pushed this knowledge too heavily to the public. Of course we want people to use it and tell us what they think about it, but just like our app launch, we have started with a smaller subset of our total future audience in the hopes to gather data and build the most relevant product for our current and future users. Much more than an email productivity app From the get-go, Timyo was never meant to… Continue reading Plugin to the future of email

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2016: the first leg of a very long journey (to fix email)

2015 wrapped up very nicely for us at Timyo. We got our app in the app store just before the annual iTunes Connect “Holiday Shutdown” — a sort of dead zone where no new apps can be launched into the App Store around Christmas time — and we got a couple days to relax, enjoy our families, and mentally prepare for the next phase of our journey. So here we are, just getting 2016 under way and moving ahead with new and exciting challenges for our team and the Timyo app. Getting an app into the App Store is a… Continue reading 2016: the first leg of a very long journey (to fix email)

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What the late Mailbox App scratched, Timyo reaches far beyond

“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” This quote from Alexander Graham Bell, is meant to positive and illustrate the fact that we can’t linger too long in the past, especially when there is a brighter future right in front of us. I just recently learned that the email productivity app, Mailbox, will be shutting down in the near future and to be honest, I was a little shocked. I mean, these guys were acquired… Continue reading What the late Mailbox App scratched, Timyo reaches far beyond

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How To Do An MVP When An MVP Isn’t Actually Viable

Before jumping into the nitty-gritty details of creating an app, or even the broad strokes of what that app should do, the product vision needs to be very clear. What is the one-sentence reason for this product existing? If this product really takes off, what do you hope to accomplish with it? With Timyo, before we started on anything, we had a very clear vision of what we wanted to accomplish: introduce the notions of time and clarity into email, in order to save time and improve everyone’s lives (well, at least everyone that uses email!). Pretty simple, right? Once… Continue reading How To Do An MVP When An MVP Isn’t Actually Viable

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One simple idea to turn the world of email on its head

When I was approached by the founders of Timyo to come on board and help them build an email app, I thought, “That sounds like fun! But…does the world really need another email app? Don’t Gmail and Microsoft already have that in the bag?” As it turns out, no, they do not have it in the bag; in fact, they, like many others, are still looking for a large enough bag to contain this problem. High Expectations What convinced me to join Timyo was the very simple premise that Timyo is based on: Allow the person sending an email to… Continue reading One simple idea to turn the world of email on its head