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Re-Designing the classic email client

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Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by twodayslate »

the_gipsy wrote: post #51

Uh, let me see. Attempt nº 5712 to revolutionize the way we use email. Tell me more. "Mark as read" is useless? I thought nowaday we had "archive", "search" and such from gmail... no mention of that. OK then, let's see what you offer... "Clutter-free interface", "clean typography" and the mystery option "what you really need"? Are you (f) kidding me? This can't scream "I'm thunderbird but made by graphical designers"…

Agreed. I can basically get everything he wants in gmail with a few extensions/labs enabled.

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by runjake »

Nevermind classic email clients, let's begin with the method the author used to make his point. It's a verbose mish-mash of disjointed text flow and pseudo-infographics. It does not flow well at all.

From what I can tell, you can achieve his vision of an email client by changing preferences in Mountain Lion's Mail.app client, so his vision is here today (well, soon).

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by podperson »

r00fus wrote: post #136
untog wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I realise that this may sound like I'm descending into fanboyism, but this is actually something that annoys me about iOS- it's far, far too app-centric. Take Windows Phone for example: tap a contact in WP and you see their tweets, Facebook messages, your SMS and e-mail history with them. The messages app integrates SMS and Live chat seamlessly. Ideally this system would open up to allow any third party to plug into…

As someone who has dealt with integrating and synchronizing data and accounts nearly my entire career, I can tell you this whole area is still in "there be dragons here" territory. Here's a recent example of stuff Google did - merged my G+ circles into my contacts - ok, I can see how that'd be useful... but old or invalid email address for my mom and wife were substituted as first hits on the search when I entered th…

If this stuff were easy, it would have been solved. That said, if Apple let us have the APIs, we could take a stab at solving it ourselves.

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by Derbasti »

ezy wrote: post #86

This person needs to try outlook. You see, there's a little flag you can click on next to the email with a task priority. And a todo bar/list which shows them in priority order. Not only has it existed before, but it really doesn't help that much. You still need to apply yourself to use it correctly. This doesn't change that. Sigh... but then I knew I was in for wheel re-invention as soon as I saw the "modern creativ…

Gmail can have several star colors and labels, too. So I guess you could replicate his workflow there as well.

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by mikeleeorg »

podperson wrote: post #36

Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…

Threadsy might have solved much of what you're looking for; unfortunately, they shut down.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33200_3-57354466-290/threadsys-gon...

I would love to see someone else try to build this. Filtering options would need to be robust and flexible to combat potential noise and info overload. I could see marketers being an easy initial niche customer. General consumers, not so much. But I'd sure pay for something like this.

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by aeden »

blhack wrote: post #62
podperson wrote: post #36

Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…

In my kitchen I have: 1. A fridge 2. A coffee machine 3. A stove 4. A microwave 5. A blender 6. Mixing bowls 7. Measuring cups All I want to do is feed myself. Why on earth do I need to have so many different things to do it? To...most people, having a separate "app" for things that do wildly different things is a good . Skype and email fill completely different roles to me, and I suspect they fill completely differe…

Sounds like your snarky self needs a matter replicator. I think the schematics are available in some book about Star Trek somewhere but you'll probably need to find a dilithium crystal to make it work.

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by ibotty »

frm1001xplrr wrote: post #52
hapless wrote: post #8

This guy has teeny tiny letters hardcoded into JPGs on his web site. I can't read it. Fortunately, this means I can disregard what he has to say about UI/UX. Sometimes the medium IS the message.

Really, it's not that big of a deal... Chrome: Zoomy ( http://goo.gl/40hiR ) Firefox: Zoom Page ( http://goo.gl/80Pa9 ) Etc.

what about accessibility?

Re: Re-Designing the classic email client

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Post by stcredzero »

pixelbath wrote: post #142
mike-cardwell wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying to receive an SMS makes absolutely no sense. Here in the UK, we pay to send them, not to receive them.

It's counted as one message each for the sender and receiver in the US. We are then billed simply by that number.

Conspiracy theories are bunk. That fact that US citizens stand for SMS double billing is the best proof that we're sheeple.
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