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I wish people would treat including you on an email like @-mentioning them slack. It may be async, but it’s just as awful for signal to noise ratio. I’m just about ready to give up on my inbox as a lost cause, and that’s my work inbox.
I feel talking about DAUs is a little deceptive for enterprise software given that 'users' are essentially forced to not only use their employer's software stack, but use it daily
Isn't Slackifying email just Slack?
I really do not get the fundamental pitch from slack that they will replace email. They replaced IRC . It's nothing like email and I still use both.
Slack integratons are not full-featured but they're more flexible than what you can embed in an email, even with gmail's markup actions. There's no other 'inbox for interactive widgets'.
Off-topic: Does Apple allow you to self host & use on your website their San Francisco font? It appears this site is using San Francisco. https://sacra.com/static/fonts/SF-Pro-Text-Regular.837e72701...
This app is nothing unique or new, here's another in the same space: https://missiveapp.com
Slackifying e-mail sounds like a nightmare to me. Email is about perfect for what it was designed. I check it when I want to check it, few Times a day. We (as humanity) really give up more and more of our most precious resources: attention and deep focus.
It’s a little puzzling to me why Gmail does not simply separate machine generated from human originated email.
> Front is like Slack for your email, except instead of creating another distracting, noisy, always-on tool, Front allows users to spin up ephemeral chats within email threads themselves. That's the exact opposite of what I'd want. Most small businesses have the same email problem that I always feel like I do. Too many requests come in via email and it's hard to track, discuss, resolve, and (at a later date) referenc…
I switched my team over Teams and asked them to create a card in the planner tasks if they needed something from me - instead of emailing me. That was much easier for me to keep track of everything. E-mail is good for communicating a thought, I don't find it good for tracking tasks - particularly tasks that have a deadline.
Isn't Slackifying email just Slack?
I really do not get the fundamental pitch from slack that they will replace email. They replaced IRC . It's nothing like email and I still use both.
I don't like the randomization of that chat can bring, but being able to join and leave channels is much preferable to e-mail.