I like the approach! I'm a GTD user and would love for the app to integrate with OmniFocus, meaning that defer and delegate are added to the appropriate place within my contexts and projects.
Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
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Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
#82Too... Plain for my tastes. Not really feeling this whole "apps should look like websites" thing. And too much whitespace!
You've addressed the visual presentation. Now, what do you think about the ideas he is presenting?
Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
#83I've edited the title from "tinder for email" as causing confusion wasn't the goal. Thanks for all the feedback!
"An email client with a Tinder-like UX" probably would have been less confusing.
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#84Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
#85This 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".…
---- Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users. Want to make the universal web site? Start by building a site for Harvard undergrads to stalk one another. ... I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the…
Do you think no one has fixed email because the problem is too hard, or because there is a lack of creative/ambitious founders?
Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
#86This is really cool, and nice design!
I work at Nylas and would love to incorporate some of this into N1, which is an open source mail app we built that also uses Electron. (https://nylas.com/n1).
If the author's hanging out in this thread, feel free to email me :) We could also make it work for non-Gmail using our open source IMAP stack!
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#87This is exactly what I need, I've been hoping for years for someone to create this. I even tried to do my own mutt installation to have a terminal / simple like e-mail.
I'd even go as far as removing the mouse and only doing keyboard shortcuts. Do not include attachments or images. I love it's full screen.
This will not be for everyone, and that is really OK, this is for people that must respond to a lot of emails very quickly, even if they are not on e-mail all day. I just spent 2 days going through actionable 475 unread e-mails (not newsletters, or spam)
I've always thought, software developers have vim, but there's nothing for business developers.
Thank you very much for creating this. If you will charge, I will gladly pay.
Take my money!
Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
#88Inbox has essentially these features. What are the advantages here?
Containing features does not a well designed product make. Matter of taste, but it's the removing of features that makes this concept interesting.
Inbox is pretty darn minimalistic, and it's batching 'done' action makes inbox 0 pretty easy.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
---- Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users. Want to make the universal web site? Start by building a site for Harvard undergrads to stalk one another. ... I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the…
Do you think no one has fixed email because the problem is too hard, or because there is a lack of creative/ambitious founders?
The main reason is that you need to be backward compatible with 30 years of terrible hacks. That's why there's a ton of vaporware email clients --- there's a huge amount of work that most of your users don't suspect.
Full-disclosure: I work at a company building an open source email client (https://nylas.com/N1) and an API to simplify email (https://nylas.com/docs)
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#90Cool product. From a design perspective I really love the website, you've done extremely well. Just a small note I believe the typography could be improved by implementing more headers.