For busy brains

An email app for people who forget to answer email

If an email out of sight is an email out of mind, the fix is not more willpower. It is an app that keeps the important ones in sight, with a date on each, and comes to find you.

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Out of sight is never out of mind

Your most urgent to-dos sit on the lock screen and home screen, so you see them every time you pick up the phone, without opening anything.

Urgency you can see at a glance

Four colours, one meaning: green is calm, amber is this week, orange is the next two days, red is late. No priority matrices, no tags to maintain.

Decisions, not piles

Mail comes one at a time with three choices: delete, archive, to-do. A suggestion is ready on each one. Nothing piles up untriaged.

What it does

Pressure that rises until it is done Only in Gadfly

Every to-do sits in a band set by its deadline: calm, hot a week out, burning two days out, critical once overdue. As the date nears it climbs, and critical ones break through your quiet hours. Other apps remind you once; Gadfly keeps the pressure on.

The Chase list

One list of what is on fire right now: by band, then importance, then the earliest date. Open the app and you know what to do next.

Nudges on time, never spam

A push an hour before a to-do is due, or at your morning briefing for all-day ones. Quiet hours and a daily cap keep you from muting it; critical ones break through. Read it anywhere and the notification goes away everywhere.

Lock screen and home screen widgets Only in Gadfly

Your hottest to-dos on the iPhone lock screen and home screen, critical first, plus unread count. Private on a locked phone: band and short title only.

Waiting-for tracking Coming

Replied and waiting on them? The to-do sleeps until the follow-up date, then comes back as "no reply yet, follow up?". A reply from them reopens it on its own.

One mail at a time

Unread mail comes as a deck: one message, three choices — delete, archive or to-do. Untriaged mail is debt, and Gadfly shows how much of it you have.

Triage suggestions that learn

Each mail arrives with a suggested action. Accept with one key. It learns from what you do with each sender.

Spam rules and learned templates

Mark one newsletter or notification as spam and its template is caught next time, from any sender.

Silence noisy senders

Silence a sender, or just one kind of title from them. That mail still arrives unread, but sends no notifications to your phone or desktop. Un-silence it from any such mail.

Group similar emails and decide them at once

Three or more unread mails from one sender with similar titles? Gadfly offers to group them into one scrollable card: archive, delete or forward them all in one tap. Any single mail can still go its own way, to-do included.

Questions

Is Gadfly a medical or ADHD treatment app?

No. It is an email app designed so mail you need to act on does not disappear. Many people with ADHD or time blindness find that helps; it is not a treatment.

Stop losing mail you meant to answer

Early sign-ups get 3 months of Pro free, not 1.

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