Does something like thiss exist for Slack?
- Turn off all notifications
- Write message as status, telling people you're alive but not available
- Shut the window
- Have the willpower to not re-open it
Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
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Re: Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
#62What's the difference with just checking your email 3 times per day? Personally, I've been checking my email before I start working in the morning, right after lunch, and before I finish my day. I have the luxury that none of my emails are "urgent" (i.e. I don't work in Customer Support), so I disabled email notifications and just take a look whenever I want. I'm a little confused as to why one would need such a serv…
I often need to reference something from a previous email while working on a project, but get distracted when I see the new messages waiting for me. Otherwise, I try to only check email 2x or 3x a day similar to you, and notifications are always off.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing to gain? How about time? That's the common benefit of every *AAS product, both free and paid. I could self host my own email server, cloud storage and backup solution, calendar software, facebook-alternative node, blog. Or I could use gmail, GDrive, google calendar, facebook and wordpress. Yes, I can do everything myself, but now I'm spending my time maintaining each of those different self hosted solutions.
You seem to care more about the one time setup effort than continuously feeding yourself to Google. Besides, there are providers like Proton if you can't afford to set one up.
Convenience and security are often at odds with one another. Not that Gmail search is any good but you can't search through encrypted mail, as an example.
Re: Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
#64How does this interact with the Gmail "Snooze" feature? Are snoozed items actually sent back to the inbox? Or are they muted in some way?
Re: Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
#65What's the difference with just checking your email 3 times per day? Personally, I've been checking my email before I start working in the morning, right after lunch, and before I finish my day. I have the luxury that none of my emails are "urgent" (i.e. I don't work in Customer Support), so I disabled email notifications and just take a look whenever I want. I'm a little confused as to why one would need such a serv…
I personally have the opposite problem - I don't check email enough for the liking of others - and I skim over it at least once daily.
Re: Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
#66Personal email, sure. Work email, you're fired.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Off topic but I wonder why people, especially usually privacy sensitive HN readers use Gmail and turn themselves into Google's better product with nothing to gain? Running your own server or use a more privacy catered provider with Thunderbird or whatever client isn't so hard.
Nothing to gain? How about time? That's the common benefit of every *AAS product, both free and paid. I could self host my own email server, cloud storage and backup solution, calendar software, facebook-alternative node, blog. Or I could use gmail, GDrive, google calendar, facebook and wordpress. Yes, I can do everything myself, but now I'm spending my time maintaining each of those different self hosted solutions.
To pile on, gmail is also well-known to have fantastic spam and phishing prevention abilities compared to most other email solutions, something you could literally never do at home yourself without some incredible software that you run yourself (and even then probably not). That's a huge value-add for a ton of users I'd imagine.
'Nothing to gain' is incredibly hyperbolic I think or this person has never read about gmail/used gmail before.
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#68What guarantees are in place with your users preventing you guys from selling your company after you've gained users and then that new company storing everyone's emails and digging through them for juicy details, IP, insider trading info, prescriptions, 2FA info, financial info, medical info, blackmail info, nudes, passwords, or anything else some people might not want a company to have? Or partnering with a company that has a data-sharing agreement with you so technically your company isn't reading emails but theirs is.
I'd imagine this is a concern for some people with this type of service similar to how in the past Chrome extensions have proceeded down this path without anyone being the wiser.
It really seems like people don't realize the potential pandora's box that they can open by sharing their emails with someone or an organization, even if that organization is currently trustworthy.
And a couple of questions for you about your infrastructure security. What is your infrastructure security and when you get breached what will you do about it? I'm assuming given your company's ability to access emails someone will find you a juicy enough target and if you get big potentially even criminal organizations and state actors would. If that's the case you will almost certainly be breached to some extent because you have a juicy treasure trove.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could automatically archive the emails with that labeling feature as well, no need for the Google Scripts.
Really, how? I've never seen any options anywhere to apply labels after a certain time. Or is there a trick I missed?
Presumably you would write the code to do it...