Home Screen

The Home Screen greets you when you open Spark, providing a quick update on what happened while you were away. It helps you reduce how often you open email throughout the day and build better email habits. 

This article will discuss how to set up the Home Screen to suit what works best for you.

If you open Spark in between your sessions, the Homescreen will give you a handy overview of emails that arrived while you were away. This way, you can decide if you need to open your Inbox at all, staying on top of things without email anxiety.

There are two ways you can set the summary: with or without a preview showing the sender, email’s first line, and subject, if any. 

How to change the Email Preview settings:

1. Open Spark Desktop.
2. Click the phrase to the right of the search icon in the upper right.
3. Choose any of the following settings:

• Hide Preview - get a text summary with a number of new emails based on their categories (People, Newsletters, Notifications).
• Show All - show preview for all new emails.
• Show People - show preview only for emails from the 'People' category.
• Show Priority - show preview only for threads and emails from senders you marked as Priority.

Alternatively, open Spark, click the Settings icon at the bottom left > Home Screen. Or, after opening Spark:

1. Click Spark Desktop.
2. Select Settings.
3. Switch to the Home Screen section.

To access this setting, open Spark Settings > Home Screen. The setting automatically enables Home Screen when Spark is inactive for some time, except when you compose or view an email.

You can change the time by entering a new number of minutes, or disable this setting by toggling this section off.

Sticking to a schedule minimizes context switches and time spent in the app, helping you preserve mental energy and spend more time focusing on what is important outside your inbox.

To access this setting, open Spark Settings > Home Screen > Set Email Focus Schedule.

You can:

• Change the time.
• Disable any of them.
• Delete any of them.
• Tick a handy reminder option. Once you have it ticked, you get a notification when the Email Focus Time comes.

Also, you can set and manage additional Email Focus Time and reset your settings to the default values.

There are certain limitations. It’s not currently possible to:

• Schedule Email Focus Time for certain dates or days of the week.
• Rename the schedule items.

If you don’t find this functionality useful for your workflow, you can disable the Email Focus Schedule suggestions by toggling this section off.