email newsletter are to me just a “blog posts with email notification”, they are difficult to filter, difficult to search and makes the inbox filled with less important stuff, i think there is a gap in the market for some sort of a solution, maybe a service that sends all your newsletters to “Notion” so you can search them ;) what do you think?
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#52I just stopped reading email newsletter in general. Currently sitting at 307 emails unread in the newsletters folder.
I have a tab folder that I launch every morning when I drink my coffee and prep for the day. It contains HN, local news, tech news, several subreddits, and YC related stuff. I wish there was a digestible way to gather my top 20 so that I don't manually go through all that information while drinking my coffee in the morning.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#53I like having newsletters in my inbox. It gives me something nice to read among all the spam, work and other junk.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#54The marketers believe its best place for their newsletters so you gotta convince them why we’ll bother looking somewhere else.
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#55My RSS reader service also provides an email address for email-only subscriptions: https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... . I read email newsletters in the same place as RSS. I'm subscribed to a few low-volume Twitter searches too ( https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... ).
I do the same thing with Feedbin. It's delightful.
Same here with Inoreader. Big fan of their service.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#56I can give you some data from my own newsletter [1]. Newsletter supports both RSS and Pocket as alternative sources for newsletter issues.
~200 subscribers
~6% accessed their RSS URL within the last week
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#57I need everything to go to my inbox, including newsletters. It's the only place I'm guaranteed to look besides SMS and my calendar.
Then I just process them together with everything else -- take a quick glance at headlines, archive if nothing interesting, keep it in my inbox if I want to read it sometime today, label it if it seems long and I want to keep it for later reading at leisure.
The last thing I want is yet another delivery mechanism I have to check.
If you have a problem with e-mail overload, it's not going to be solved by adding another information source. It's going to be solved by tackling it head-on in your e-mail, and there are lots of methods.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#58My RSS reader service also provides an email address for email-only subscriptions: https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... . I read email newsletters in the same place as RSS. I'm subscribed to a few low-volume Twitter searches too ( https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... ).
I use Kill the newsletter for that purpose, as my RSS reader is client-side https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
Looks like a great tool - thanks for sharing.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#59I'm on the other side of the issue. I have 10000 subscribers with a 0.6% Spam rate. That's technically high, despite me getting all emails voluntarily and not even offering a freebie for signing up. Anyway, can't use Facebook/IG/Reddit/Twitter because of the algorithm. Can't email more than 4 times a year due to spam filters. I still pay hundreds of dollars a year to reach people via email octopus and Amazon.... And…
Regardless of whether I "consented" or not, I'll mark recurring marketing/news/feedback emails as spam in Gmail. This also gives me the option to unsubscribe if Gmail finds a link. Much easier than seeking out the unsub link myself, so I use this even if it's not technically spam. I do wish Google provided a standalone unsubscribe link. Or maybe companies shouldn't hide it in the fine print and make me fill out a for…
The Karen of email.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
#60I just don't read them, they are.AAL is pointless