Sidekick is an amazing feature offered by Gmail which lets you easily control your email. Developed by HubSpot, Sideick is installed as an extension to Google Chrome. One needs the Gmail account to be able to access it. Hubspot is a company formed in the year 2006 by Brian Haligan and Dharmesh Shah from Massachusetts. One can also access it through Outlook desktop, Outlook.com, and Apple Mail. Using Sidekick, you could easily get to know when your email is opened by the sender.
To start using this feature, you need to sign up and create your account on Sidekick. Logging in with your Google account is the most convenient process. After that, theSidekick Chrome extension needs to be installed. These are the basic steps required to configure Sidekick. It will then take over the responsibility of tracking your emails.
Sidekick gives you accurate information about the emails that have been opened, and the ones that have not been opened. Moreover, it has the additional feature to let you know if the links inside the mail have been clicked by the receiver or no. If there are any mails that you do not wish to track, you can conveniently untracked them.
Well, that is not all. Sidekick has got other features as well. It provides you information of the people to whom you are sending an email. The Sidekick sidebar is your companion. it shows you your mail history, links to the social media accounts of the receivers, and also about the company if the mail id is a company account.
The scheduling feature is another spectacular feature provided by the app. After composing the email, the option to schedule the mail can be see n to send the mail at whatever time you prefer to. This is especially useful for people living in different time zones.
The iOS and Android apps of Sidekick provide you all the features on your smartphone. The scheduling option is yet to come in mobile phones. With these apps, you can do all your tracking on the go.
After registering for Sidekick, you can avail unlimited tracking for the first month absolutely free of cost. From the second month onwards, you are offered 200 free tracks in a month. A monthly fee of $10 offers you unrestricted tracking all through the month.
The “Undo Send” feature by Gmail has also come out as the most useful update for the users. Now an official setting in the Gmail interface, “Undo Send” pauses the posting of your email once you click send. This gives you the option to take it back if you want. This is a feature that Google had been working on since the past six years. It started in 2009 to offer the senders the Undo option for five seconds. Now, it helps users choose for 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
With such great apps in the store, the users are given complete freedom and control over their mails. They get the power to monitor them regularly and as per their own convenience.
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