Automatic Filing, New iPhone App and Box Integration

We’ve been hard at work and have a lot of exciting stuff to announce today.

Automatic Filing

Email causes so much busy work. Almost every email you receive becomes a todo item. For example, every time I receive a receipt from GitHub, I download it to a folder in Dropbox called receipts which is shared with my accountant. When I receive a ticket from TicketFly, I put it in another folder called tickets. This sort of busy work eats up your time when you should be doing more important stuff.

Enter automatic filing.

Automatic filing allows you to setup rules which specify how your attachments should be sorted into your cloud-storage solutions. The rules let you filter on the sender of the email, as well as the file type. So I could setup all Images from Ben to go to a folder called RidiculousPhotos. Or I can be more broad, and setup all Documents from Mike to go to a folder called MikesDocuments. If I really want to get crazy, I can even setup all the attachments I receive to go into a folder called MyAttachments.

We are super excited about automatic filing, as we really feel it can help people get more organized, and ultimately take back some of their time. We have a ton more options we are going to add to automatic filing rules but, as always, we’d love to hear your ideas too. Currently you can only set these up in the Chrome Extension, but you will eventually be able to set them up from our site or from the iPhone application.

New iPhone App Version

Speaking of our iPhone application, we just released a new one! It has a really great new feature. You have all of your files “in the cloud”, available everywhere, right? With Gmail, your email is also “in the cloud”. So why is it that the only way for you to email a file to someone, while on the run, is to send it via a link?

Enter cloud attached files.

Now, from your Attachments.me iPhone application, you can compose an email and attach files to it from cloud-storage like Dropbox, or from your attachments in Gmail. When you click send, the file never gets downloaded to your phone, but instead we send it from the cloud, with the real file attached. This makes it super fast and saves your data plan!

Box Integration

We are very happy to announce that our cloud storage integration, which formally only supported Dropbox, is now also available for Box! Whether it’s from your Gmail inbox, or on our iPhone application, attaching from, and saving to Box has never been easier.

Ben put together a great new video that show cases some of these new features. Check it out below!

— Jesse