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Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by mrestko »

Xeoncross wrote: post #18

This assumes an inbox is a type of "project" that needs to be "completed". It's structured on the concept of removing messages from my screen until there is nothing left for me to "do". My inbox is often more of a conversation that I fade in and out of. Sometimes it resembles a facebook feed. Granted, I'm not a type A personality, but not all email is has to be "done" anymore than all reading books need to be "done".…

Then don't use it. It's clearly designed for a specific use case and there's no reason to expect that use case to apply to every user of email.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by artursapek »

overcast wrote: post #43
eric001 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic, but who started this "Made with <3" thing?

Not sure, but it needs to go away along with all the other feel good nonsense. Like every startup looking for "ninjas, gurus, and rock stars".

"Made with VCs breathing down our necks"

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by overcast »

Toenex wrote: post #50
eric001 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic, but who started this "Made with <3" thing?

I'll admit I spent a couple of minutes trying to establish a link between paired programming and the 'less than 3' before my teenage daughter helped dad out.

Awesome, "Made with <2" works for me.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by robbyking »

toddsiegel wrote: post #34

I just downloaded it. I like "response", "delegate", and "defer", and "unsubscribe". I do not like that is only runs in fullscreen, but I think I get why you're doing it. I current use Google Inbox and set my default "done" action to delete. You should support the notion of "done forever". I maybe keep 10% of the email I receive. Having a heavy hand with deletion forces me to think about the value of the communicatio…

FWiW, it doesn't only run in full screen, it just launches in full screen.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by jdmichal »

hammock wrote: post #32

Let's try a bit of wordsmithing. Either stick to the 4 D's of GTD: Delete, Do, Delegate, Defer; or use the commonplace terms: Archive, Reply, Forward, Snooze. When you do this, do you start to realize how similar it looks to existing email clients? By the way you say there is no Snooze button- then what is Defer? And one-touch, not "single-touch."

If I'm reading it right, "defer" means you actually schedule an appointment in a calendar. I much rather prefer the idea of snoozing (a fixed delay before reappearing) better. If I'm not interested in dealing with something now, then I'm also not really interested in vetting calendar space for it at that exact moment either.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by CptJamesCook »

neeel wrote: post #19
phodo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks great, but agree w the Tinder part not resonating. Isn't this more "Getting Things Done - by David Allen" for email? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

Surprisingly a Tinder analogy is failing to resonate on hackernews. Who would have thought

The post has been at number 1 for an hour. It's resonating and also generating hate.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by semerda »

Is email really broken or are people looking for things to change?

Reason I ask is because I see this "let's fix email" so often, peeps build something new then it either gets acquired & killed or goes no where.

What if email isn't broken. Instead email as we think we see it is merely a feed with or without action and its up to us to manage it.

PlainEmail appears like an attempt of changing our habits of reading a feed with GTD concepts. I'd much rather prefer to see my feed and an algo/machine learning identify action emails and suggest to me the best method (GTD or not) to handle it. Otherwise I'd carry on with my usual habits.

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