Ooo, I've been looking forward to when I can use this for my personal account too. It takes some training but it's highly effective after a while.
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#12#28 of YC's Ideas They'd Like to Fund
"Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader.
Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."
Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
#13#28 of YC's Ideas They'd Like to Fund "Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader. Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."
Isn't Etacts trying to solve this problem?
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#14This sort of feature always makes me sad that they announce features before rolling them out to everyone. Now I can't wait for it to show up in my account.
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#15After four drafts of my response, I think it can be summed up in one sentence: Minus the paranoia, murder, and mayhem, Ted Kaczynski might have been on to something.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"the data has to be stored someplace other then my machine and it makes me wonder who can read it" Data being stored someplace other than your machine is the reason why people use webmail.
I think he meant the "psychological profile" data, not his email text.
Without knowing anything detailed about how all this is implemented, it looks to be derived from nothing more than is stored in your inbox:
The text of the emails, and whether they are read and replied to.
As such it seems like strictly less information than you are requesting that they store.
Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
#17Having tested this the last few days, I would raise a rebel army if Google tried to take it away.
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#18Sounds a lot like SaneBox, except with only one level of priority instead of a few graduated ones.
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#19#28 of YC's Ideas They'd Like to Fund "Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader. Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."
Yeah, I was trying to solve that as well with my startup... Priority Inbox definitely implements a few of our "killer features". Will be interesting to see if we can compete with Google on this :)
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#20That promotional video is exceptionally well-executed.
Wish I could watch it. Am I the only one who can't stream a full video from YouTube half the time? Either it doesn't start at all, or quits streaming half way through.