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Channels

Slack's shape, email's substance.

Each channel is a lane of your mail. Mail arrives, routes to exactly one channel, and the agents assigned there do the work.

Authoring

Written with AI help, run without it

Type “only email from my dad” and Sodaroad drafts candidate rules, each with a count of the conversations it would match today. Approve one and it is a rule like any hand-typed rule.

  • Three verbs route, mark as priority, move to.
  • Ordered lists rules run top to bottom; the first match wins.
  • A re-route pass change a rule and existing mail follows it.

Default channels

Sodaroad ships with a starting set you can rename, reorder or delete. Narrow, personal, low-volume channels are legitimate; you decide what a lane is worth.

  • Clientsfrom a contact labelled client
  • Billingmentions invoice, payout or receipt
  • Newslettershas a list-unsubscribe header
  • Familyonly email from my family
  • Everything elsethe catch-all, ranked last

FAQ

About channels.

Does an AI read every message to sort it?

No. You describe a rule in plain words and Sodaroad drafts candidate rules from that description alone; nothing from your mail is sent. Once you approve a rule it runs deterministically on every message, the same way every time.

Can a message be in two channels?

No. Channel membership is exclusive. When several rules match, the channel you ranked highest wins, so there is always exactly one answer to which agent is responsible for a message.

What can a rule do?

Route to a channel, mark as priority, or move to another channel. Rules can match sender, domain, subject, headers, contact labels and more, and each candidate shows how many of your existing conversations it would match before you save it.

Does this change anything in Gmail?

No. Channels are a view over your mail in Sodaroad. Your Gmail labels and folders are untouched.

Take your address.

Free to talk. Your address is the account, and there is nothing to install.