Important documents arrive by email and vanish. Inbox Watcher connects to your Gmail and automatically files them into MyHome — no manual uploading, nothing missed.
Think about the last time an important document arrived by email. A home insurance renewal, maybe. Or a mortgage statement. A utility bill you actually needed.
You saw it. You meant to do something with it. And then thirty other emails arrived and it disappeared somewhere around page three of your inbox, never to be found again until you needed it urgently.
This is how most households manage their documents. Not through any system — just through their email inbox and a general hope that search will work when the time comes. It often doesn't.
Email is brilliant at receiving things. It is terrible at keeping them. There's no structure, no categories, no way to see at a glance what you have and what's missing. Important documents sit alongside promotional offers, newsletters, and delivery notifications.
When your MOT reminder arrives, it lands in the same place as a clothing sale you signed up to three years ago. When your contents insurance policy comes through, it gets buried under calendar invites. When you actually need to find something — when the boiler breaks and you're trying to locate the warranty, or the letting agent needs proof of your home insurance — you're searching through years of inbox, hoping you haven't deleted it.
The frustrating part is that none of this is difficult in theory. The document came to you. It was right there. It just didn't end up anywhere useful.
Inbox Watcher connects MyHome to your Gmail account. Once it's set up, any document that arrives in your inbox — a PDF, a statement, a policy document — gets captured automatically and filed into MyHome.
No manual uploading. No remembering to do anything. The document arrives by email and appears in your MyHome library, processed and searchable, without you having to touch it.
From there, MyHome's OCR reads what's inside it. The AI pulls out the important information — expiry dates, account numbers, renewal deadlines — and if there's a date worth tracking, it can set a reminder so you're not caught out.
The whole thing runs in the background. You don't have to change how you use your email. Documents that would have disappeared into your inbox instead end up somewhere you can actually find them.
Most document management tools assume you'll remember to upload things. That's the friction point. You get busy, you forget, and after a few months your document library is half-complete and you've stopped trusting it.
Inbox Watcher removes that assumption. You don't have to remember to upload your insurance renewal because it's already there. You don't have to go looking for your mortgage statement because it filed itself the day it arrived.
The households that struggle most with document admin aren't disorganised people. They're busy people who have better things to think about than whether they remembered to save a PDF. Inbox Watcher means they don't have to think about it at all.
Inbox Watcher currently works with Gmail. Outlook integration isn't available yet. If you use Gmail for household admin — which most UK households do — you're good to go.
Your email connection is encrypted, and MyHome only reads documents that arrive in your inbox.
Inbox Watcher is included on the Pro plan (£8.99/month) and the Duo plan (£13.99/month). It's one of the features that makes the Pro plan worth it for households that receive a lot of documents by email — which, realistically, is most of them.
If you're on the free plan and you've been thinking about upgrading, this is probably the thing that tips it.
MyHome is a household document management platform for UK homeowners and renters. Store, search, and stay on top of every important document — all in one place.