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Finally an answer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854641
Plum has some interesting ideas, if you're interested in a different approach to this problem, check out https://www.twobird.com Disclaimer: I work on it!
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Plum has some interesting ideas, if you're interested in a different approach to this problem, check out https://www.twobird.com Disclaimer: I work on it!
FYI your home page doesn't display quite right on Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/kjs0nPR.png
I watched the demo video and I'm intrigued! It's like a better interface for group conversations. Some feedback/questions based solely on the demo: - Will I be able to see who has notifications on or off? - Relatedly, if someone has notifications off, is there way a way to notify them anyway? Say for example during the branding discussion they've decided to use Pears instead of Plums, and they want to bring you back…
As of now you will not, but we have been asked this question by other users and are looking for feedback on the right way forward.
> Relatedly, if someone has notifications off, is there way a way to notify them anyway?
We want to introduce @mentions so that in larger group conversations you can highlight messages for a particular participant, this would notify that user even if they were not receiving notifications for every message.
> If someone who is not on plummail signs up, will the conversations they were previously included in be in their inbox?
Yes
> You should put an invite link on the bottom of the fallback emails
All fallback emails allow a user, new or otherwise, to immediately access that conversation on plum mail.
> so when/how would you be notified that the message failed? Would there be a way to fix the email and resend?
If we get a bounce back from an email address you will be able to see that in the conversation.
> When someone is added to the conversation I assume they get the full history?
Correct, if they are added to a conversation with history, they will be able to access the conversation from the fallback message this will give access to all previous messages.
> How do you get my inbound email? Do I forward it from gmail to you? Do you act as my MX recipient?
For now we don't handle inbound emails sent directly to your inbox. plum mail is the place for your group conversations that benefit from our unique features. We don't see much value in forwarding other transactional emails into plum mail. But we might look into it in the future.
This reminds me a lot of aether pro which is also a backwards-compatible email enhancer. Their main feature seems to be Slack-like channels. https://aether.app/
Congrats on the launch. Was pulling my hair out trying to coordinate tasks in applying for a mortgage between me, my wife, the banker, the insurance company and the title people. I thought to myself it'd be great to have something like shared inbox but for personal use. Would love to test this
Separately, why there isn't a tool used by the mortgage broker to facilitate this, I have no idea. It's a nightmare of documents and tasks that makes the whole process 8 times as long.
Interesting. Could Plum Mail be suitable for communication in an open source community? There's a range of group communication platforms, including email newsletters, Slack channels, and Discord (and originally email lists and UseNet) that can be either distracting, hard to search, difficult to thread, or difficult to join. Is there a mechanism for people to invite themselves to a Plum Mail conversation from a sign-u…
