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Power Moves

Giving people control means more than giving them controls.

If a useful capability sits behind a setting nobody understands, we haven’t finished the job.

Power Moves are short animated interactive experiences that show what you can do with Salt Mail.

An abstract mailbox simulation showing choices and subsequent message handling.

Try a move and see what follows, without experimenting on your real inbox.

They are entirely optional. You don’t need them to use Salt Mail. They are there when a little practice would help.

Keep the work invisible. Make the possibilities visible.

We want to reduce our presence to a few initial swipes, then get out of your way. But those should be the right swipes for you—and that takes thought.

Email has trained us to react: open, skim, dismiss, repeat. There is little room left to discriminate between what deserves our time and what merely demands it.

Power Moves help you build muscle for those more deliberate choices. A little thought at the beginning can mean fewer decisions to repeat later, in the same inbox you already know.

Your discovery could make someone else’s day.

Sometimes a member’s feedback reveals a way of using Salt Mail that makes us stop and smile. A familiar frustration, an unexpected use, or a small adjustment that makes a big difference. We love those discoveries.

More than half of our Power Moves come from members.

Power Moves give us a way to share that practical knowledge with the community.

That is advocacy in practice: listen to members, help them get more from the product, and give useful discoveries back to the community.