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What’s a good name for an e-mail overload product?

July 10th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Update 8/8/08: Name chosen! The product now exists! You are Not Your Inbox, available at http://www.YouAreNotYourInbox.com !

I’m in the final stages of developing a product that helps people combat e-mail overload. Could you help me choose a title? The subtitle will describe the product; the main title should be catchy, PR-worthy, etc.

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15 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Barbara Nixon // Jul 10, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Wahoo! I was the first one to vote.

  • 2 Ross // Jul 10, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Are you married to any of these ideas? You might want to consider some write-ins, sometimes the collective brainstorming power of a group is pretty darn bright.

    A couple that came to mind when you described your product:

    Email Eradicator
    Inbox Eradicator
    Inbox-Buster
    Inbox-Tamer
    Keep It In Check

  • 3 Rob Kendrick // Jul 10, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Darn, I was thinking something cool like E-Maelstrom. Or something like that. ;)

  • 4 Kevin Montgomery // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    For a main title, what about:
    “Dam Email”
    :)

  • 5 Lynn Dye // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    How about Email Wrangler

  • 6 Arthur Germain (@ahg3) // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    Detox Your InBox
    Zen and the Art of Email Maintenance
    Control Inbox Clutter Now
    The Four Minute Email Day ;)

  • 7 jen patrick // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Email ate my baby. it’s probably the least corporate sounding of all teh names.. but it’s cute, and quite witty. (Maybe a sub/byline underneath it? How to deal with E-mail Overload)

  • 8 Jim Sewell // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    I don’t like any of those. I wouldn’t take them seriously if I saw them on a list of utilities. No offense but they sound like old-time “it’s shareware because we can’t sell it” names.

    I don’t have any great ideas but one that comes to mind is “Email Intervention” because the glut of emails is like drugs and we email readers need to be saved from the terrors of email addiction.

    Can’t wait to see what the product does.

  • 9 Wendy // Jul 11, 2008 at 1:57 am

    Depends what the product is. If it’s a book/CD, then ‘Email Ate My Baby’ and ‘You are Not your Inbox’ are fun attention-grabbing titles.

    If it’s a software app, an object then it would be a bit clunky naming it a phrase… although they did it with ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter’.

    And since I’m looking for a reason NOT to go through my inbox, here are some random ideas for a laugh!

    Phrase-type names:
    - Your Inbox Is Just Not That Into You!
    (Just a little joke.)
    -The Little Inbox That Could
    -Inbox Away!
    -Killing Me Softly with Email
    -Online, No-One Hears You Scream

    Object-type names:
    -Email Airer
    -Email Freedom Fighter
    -The Inbox Resuscitator
    -E-Snorkel
    (The thing that saves you from drowning in emails. Same concept applies to E-Straw, E-Rope, E-Winch, E-Rock, E-Floating Debris…ok, a bit too abstract!)

    I’m intriguied!

  • 10 Kevin Montgomery // Jul 11, 2008 at 6:14 am

    I still think “Dam Email” makes a lot of sense, for these reasons:

    - Dams intentionally hold back or divert a resource, in order to do something useful with it—typically to create power, or in the case of this email tool, to “empower”.

    - It’s a clever tongue-in-cheek name (obviously) that states a clear response to the problem of managing emails, and not just cursing about it.

  • 11 Get-it-done-FAN // Jul 11, 2008 at 11:16 am

    I like Arthur’s suggestion…tweaked to
    INBOX DETOX
    but not sure how original you need it to be…looks like there are plenty of people who have used that before
    http://www.google.com/search?q=inbox+detox

    Along the lines of “addiction”…and getting someone’s attention
    CORPORATE COCAINE

    For the “freedom” theme…maybe
    EMAIL EMANCIPATOR

  • 12 Matt B. // Jul 14, 2008 at 3:27 am

    I vote for E-mail Ate my Baby!

  • 13 Che // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:26 am

    uhmm how about:

    - choking on email
    - inboxphobia (fear of opening your inbox – often experienced on a monday morning or first day back from holidays)
    - email declogger

  • 14 Bryan // Aug 7, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    How about

    eBot, Your Personal Email Robot.

    For me, processing email is all about being precise, purposeful, detail-oriented, and fast. eBot brings everything but the purpose.

  • 15 Bryan // Aug 8, 2008 at 7:31 am

    I also like the word “proxy.” It sounds computer-y, something an average consumer would buy at Staples. And the meaning loosely fits what I assume your email program will do. What about ProxEmail?

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