Breef

Control distractions. Ace meetings.

Filter all of Gmail to only the meeting or attendees that you care about right now.

It's noise-cancelling for email.

Be fully briefed, 5 minutes before

Pull together all threads that you need to be on top. Instantly recap recent emails, files, and previous meetings with other attendees.

(Coming soon: pull in other sources, e.g. related material from Docs, Typeform, etc.)

Avoid last minute surprises

See a timeline of events for the coming week, to automatically track emails that still need action with other attendees.

That's what Breef does: it keeps you unblocking issues and progressing forward.

Keep a tight checklist of tasks for the meeting

As new emails come in from attendees, update the meeting agenda directly from Gmail's sidebar, to remember everything that matters.

And use templates for different types of meetings, to capture your best practices.

Agreed next actions will get done

Ensure your meetings lead to action, by summarizing them into notes, assigning tasks, and emailing all the attendees.

Save hours on annoying admin work

Forget manual input - no labels, no filters - it automatically integrates your calendar with Gmail, and tracks emails.

Breef can reduce Gmail admin by 75%. Just do what matters.

Ever felt embarrassed during a meeting?

- a note by Andy Mitchell, BEO (Breef Executive Officer)

I have 😳

For 15 years, I've worked on the first task manager for Gmail: ActiveInbox. It taught me to understand email management and the pains of countless customer and team meetings (8,000+!).

'Email management' is a way of admitting we have way too much digital stuff. Too many emails and tools... things get lost.

Which is why, more times than I want to admit, I've had the "Ding! Meeting starts in 10 minutes!" reminder, then a panicked scramble to find what it's about.

This is what email management tries to solve with lists. But when you're genuinely busy, you've got no time to make lists - or hunt through other tools - and that's when things fall apart.

With Breef, I'm trying to make it automatic.

I don't believe our brains should be anxious about upcoming meetings, hours before they start. Let software do that. You should be able to ignore a meeting until moments before it begins. Breef will give you the tools to have that freedom.

(If this excites you, tell me what you need! andym@getbreef.com)

✔️ Breef is ZERO effort.

When you're swamped you've got no time to "manage" emails.

Breef is designed to require no input. It automatically pulls together what matters, to achieve your goals.

And works where you do - within Gmail!

✔️ Privacy. Your emails are safe.

Notice how there's no cookie banner on this site? We don't track you. We're fully GDPR compliant.

Breef doesn't require permission to read your emails. See our Privacy Policy.

✔️ Your attention matters.

In our increasingly fragmented world, it's hard to argue there's any greater skills than focus and relationships.

"The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy."

- Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Work

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ in the Chrome Web Store

Founder, Flying Mollusk

Breef has been an email game-changer for me. It prevents mental whiplash.

I use Breef to fly through my inbox and get rid of all the irritating and time-consuming detritus that collects there in about 1/3 of the time it used to take me. Then I can focus on what's actually important. It's immeasurably reduced my anxiety around the Sisyphean daily task that is email.

Great extension that sits right in your inbox, clears out the fluff, then helps you sort the wheat from the chaff so you can focus

discount What Will It Cost? discount

I don't know exactly! Breef:Calendar is prelaunch (but working and useable), and I'm still figuring out the value. It'll be the same ball park as ActiveInbox - so around $6/mo.

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