Time Saving Tips

Spike was built to make your daily communications more efficient. There’s a bundle of time-saving shortcuts you can use so you can focus on your real work.

Quick swipe

Spike’s Quick Swipe feature is best for users who want to get through lots of messages. You can customize your Swipe default action to be either Archive or Delete. This can easily be done in your Settings.

How to activate Quick Swipe:

Swipe right to get to the menu
Go to Settings
Scroll down to Messaging
Turn on Quick Swipe

Customizing Quick Swipe gestures

There a few simple ways to customize your swipe gestures so that you can get through your email as quickly as possible.

Default option:

Are you the type of person that deletes everything?

Tap the Swipe Action Buttons under Quick Swipe.
Choose Delete and Archive.

When activated, a short swipe from right to left will delete:

And a long swipe from right to left will Archive:

Are you the type of person that archives everything?

Just follow the same instructions as above, but this time, choose to archive option. Now, a short swipe will archive and a long one will delete.

Swipe right to have more options.

This will open the actions menu:

Selecting multiple threads at once

Spike allows you to clean your inbox clutter fast with bulk actions!

Archive, trash or mark as read/unread multiple messages in a single swipe and focus on what really matters – getting things done!

Mobile

Long press the avatar icon (the contact’s picture on the left side) of a starting thread to select it.
Tap on each additional thread on which you’d like to perform a bulk action.
At the bottom of the screen, tap on one of the three options: delete, archive or mark as read/unread

Message batches:

Tap on the checkmark icon above your messages (top right) to select a batch of messages.
You can de-select any specific threads from the batch by tapping on them individually after the batch selection.
Add any additional batches to be affected by the bulk action.
Select the relevant icon to Trash, Archive or Mark as Read/Unread

Bonus Tip!
You can quickly mark your entire Other section as Read or Unread by pressing and holding on it.

Desktop

There are two ways to use bulk actions on desktop:

Click on the Avatar Icon (the picture on the left side) of a thread to select it and repeat for each thread you’d like to include. You’ll know you’ve selected a thread when the icon changes:
Hold the shift key while clicking anywhere on a starting thread, then shift-click anywhere on the finishing thread. This will select all threads between the starting and finishing threads.

? It is currently not possible to select multiple search results at once.

This is coming soon!

Spike Super Search: tricks & shortcuts

Spike has dedicated folders to help sort and find the emails you’re looking for. The default folders are Sent, Spam and Starred. You can also create custom folders/tags. See how to create a tag here.

Extra powerful search shortcuts with search modifiers:

is:unseen – search in Unseen
in:trash – search in Trash
in:spam – search in Spam
is:starred – search in Starred

⭐️ Pro tip! You can combine other filters and free text for extra search power.

For example, is:unseen and type a keyword seth.
In the below example, Spike will search for all unread messages from Seth (Godin) to catch up on our newsletter reading.