Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
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Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#2I think "Google Inbox Replacement" is misleading if your workflow assumes users will use Gmail in addition to Monolist:
> We’re working on a Gmail integration as you read this! To start, the emails you star in Gmail and any threads that you haven’t responded to will become action items in Monolist, but we have plans for much more.
Personally I don't think I would use Monolist because I want to replace Google Inbox with a single service, not Gmail plus another service.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#3I think "Google Inbox Replacement" is misleading if your workflow assumes users will use Gmail in addition to Monolist: > We’re working on a Gmail integration as you read this! To start, the emails you star in Gmail and any threads that you haven’t responded to will become action items in Monolist, but we have plans for much more. Personally I don't think I would use Monolist because I want to replace Google Inbox wi…
It's possible I'm misunderstanding, but it also seems like they're more oriented on being a task list instead of a true email client. Inbox to me was just a much nicer gmail, though I understand a lot of people used it like a email based todo list and monolist might appeal to them
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#4What.. I've totally missed this. Inbox will be shut down? What the....
I am a happy user of inbox since its first days and now.. Again.. Google shuts down the next service.. Another point not to invest (time, in this case) into Google products, sadly. :(
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#5This seems like a potentially good service, but as 'kcon said, not an Inbox replacement. It doesn't do bundling, snoozing, or pinning for emails, which are the key features of Inbox.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#6I think "Google Inbox Replacement" is misleading if your workflow assumes users will use Gmail in addition to Monolist: > We’re working on a Gmail integration as you read this! To start, the emails you star in Gmail and any threads that you haven’t responded to will become action items in Monolist, but we have plans for much more. Personally I don't think I would use Monolist because I want to replace Google Inbox wi…
That's fair (cofounder here).
Our eventual goal is to replace Gmail for any work/transactional emails. We're taking the approach of doing that one integration at a time, and providing a richer experience.
We do think that there's a world in which both of them are useful though. The problem as we see it right now with Gmail is you may receive a notification about a pull request or whatever, but you can't do anything with it and the data gets stale. Monolist will keep it in sync, and let you approve/merge/comment on it inline so you don't have to switch between 10 apps.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#7This seems like a potentially good service, but as 'kcon said, not an Inbox replacement. It doesn't do bundling, snoozing, or pinning for emails, which are the key features of Inbox.
We already have snoozing for items that come into Monolist, and bundling is on our radar as well.
We're working on a Gmail integration right now so we'll pull in any emails you actually read automatically, and let you label/organize/snooze/bundle/reply all without leaving the feed.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#8In addition to what others said below, an iOS app is a hard requirement for me. Gonna have to pass for now but cheering you on.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#9In addition to what others said below, an iOS app is a hard requirement for me. Gonna have to pass for now but cheering you on.
Thanks! We have an iOS app coming up. If you sign up or message me your email, we can notify you when it's done.
Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
#10Can this misleading title be corrected? This isn’t (and can’t be) an Inbox replacement. It seems to have been written this way to self-promote.