Cloze
Introduction
Founded by Dan Foody and Alex Cote, Cloze is a very useful web application working towards making your professional and work relationships a lot easier through an array of useful features and services. With the primary goal being maintaining the essence of the relationships we share with our work and people at work, Cloze is here to be a perfect support that we all desperately needed.
We all, working in the corporate world, are busy people, and when it comes to building professional relationships, we are experts on that by now. If you have decided to visit our website, we know you are one of them looking for a permanent solution to managing all that hectic work and those new professional relationships building up every day. We aren’t saying that you hate that and want to get rid of it, but aren’t you all looking for an easy substitute to all that, which somehow allows you to spend a little bit more time on other important things?
One of the most crucial things we have to master, to be called top level professionals, is creating work relationships with other people. However, their nature is very flexible, some of them stay with us for a very long time while there are many that ends with just one e-mail exchange or a phone call or may be a Tweet. A few among them become close to us and we remain co-workers for an extended period while others just go away from our lives in a blink. The point being, who is important at this point of time may be nobody to us just one second later. Why is this so easy to understand and yet so hard to grasp?
The technology has evolved in the last few decades to an extent that deals worth of millions is taking places between two people who are sitting in the opposite corners of the world. If so much important stuff is there waiting for your attention then why would you actually mess around with the less important stuff? That’s why Cloze is here.
Cloze is a step forward in this regard and very efficiently and smartly eliminates all the busy work that you hate and keep things as simple as they can be.
How Cloze Works?
Step 1
The obvious first thing you need to do is to Sign up. By using your e-mail (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or whatever mail id you have got). You can also Sign up directly by using Facebook integration which is quite easy. But it’s totally your choice to choose which method to Sinup.
Step 2
After you are done with the signing up process, which is quite easy and simple, now the web app takes the charge. Cloze carefully analyzes the data that you provide in terms of your email, Twitter and Facebook credentials and gets to work.
However, we should also point out that the whole process of analyzing your score can take a while. A few minutes, or days maybe. Seriously, it depends on the bulk of data you throw at it. It does take the time to go through all that stuff, so be patient.
Step 3
There is score system to make the experience even easier. The app, using the algorithm of its own, starts calculating your Cloze score.
For example: when I signed up for it and just entered my social networking credentials, it showed me that my score was 42 and once I added Gmail to the list of my connected accounts, my score moved to 49.
The thing is, how the app automatically determines the individual scores is still a mystery, but all we know is that Cloze does it like a pro, more like artificial intelligence.
Step 4
After setting up yourself up on a score, you can now monitor your important relationships in Cloze and interact with them directly through the web interface. Cloze performs the task of notifying you about all the important emails or Facebook updates that you have missed and then you can go on and look up for the missing email and the Facebook update or a Tweet for that matter.
The information that you have missed which is rather important according to you (and Cloze, of course) is called News. So, once you have been notified about the News that you have missed, you have the option to dismiss it, in case you have already checked it through some other source or you intend to delete it. Through Cloze, you can directly respond to the news, and you also have the option to do that per person or per news item.
One more thing, there is also an option for people who want to take its services just for the emailing purposes. That means, there is an option where you can disable the social networking option, and the app will only be notifying you about the e-mails that you have probably missed and were of high-level significance to you. The side panel menu in the app will have options such as Save for later, Key People, Other Mail, Bulk Mail, Losing touch and Other Social to make things lot more easier. Not only that, here in Cloze, you can categorize your connections in different groups as well.
Example: Make separate groups for co-workers, personal, customers and others.
Step 5
The e-mail thus received will be showing you the part of the message body along with the timestamp to let you know how old it is. You can do lot more ‘usual’ things with your mails and other updates such as bookmarking them or maybe ‘Save for later’ thing.
What Makes Cloze Unique?
Unlike SaneBox which is somehow a lot of dismissive, Cloze is a lot more permissive. Cloze works harder towards helping you in building and maintaining close relationships with the people that you interact with on a regular or ‘not too regular’ basis and does its job masterfully. On the other hand, SaneBox is just practically about processing the communication than progressing it. Thus, we conclude that Cloze is the only one app of its kind that works on a more ‘humane’ level than many others in the arena.
Cloze not only create some long-lasting relationships with the people you work with, but it also keeps working harder towards strengthening the professional relationship further which is rare. And the most important reasons of them all, it saves a lot of your precious time which you would previously waste In going through the inbox and checking out whether you have missed some important mail or not and being a human, you are still open to making mistakes…. and there comes Cloze.