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Re: A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab

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Post by hayksaakian »

cjbarber wrote: post #9
Rygu wrote: post #3

Couldn't you just give those conversations an Unreplied label? It will show up on the left. Gmail's labeling system is probably the most useful but overlooked feature they have.

Sure. But that doesn't take care of the issue of automatically labeling messages as such.

so you have a filter that automatically adds a label

you could also use the gmail gem to remove that label from received messages which are replies

I don't think there's any startup potential in something it would take a mediocre engineer to write in an hour

(unless there's some dire need at a big corp for auto labelling)

Re: A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab

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Post by cjbarber »

hayksaakian wrote: post #11
cjbarber wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. But that doesn't take care of the issue of automatically labeling messages as such.

so you have a filter that automatically adds a label you could also use the gmail gem to remove that label from received messages which are replies I don't think there's any startup potential in something it would take a mediocre engineer to write in an hour (unless there's some dire need at a big corp for auto labelling)

Second highest comment on Dropbox's original HN posting:

> I have a few qualms with this app:

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Re: A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab

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Post by udfalkso »

MasterScrat wrote: post #2

I want the opposite. When I receive a mail, I want to set a timer saying: "this needs to be answered before noon", or "today" or "by the end of the week". Then get relevant reminders. That way I can go back to whatever I was doing and have it out of my mind. For now I just star messages that need to be replied to, but that's too coarse-grained.

Hit reply, save as draft. Go back to what you were doing. Your drafts then become your email to-do list and you never forget anything. Starring is a bit worse because you may also star stuff that's important or that you want to keep around later.

It's still coarse, but for me at least it's been very effective.

Re: A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab

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Post by colinloretz »

cjbarber wrote: post #8

Anyone want to take my money? :) I'll front a payment for the first month right now! (Serious)

Here is a code snippet that does the opposite of what you want. To achieve what you are looking for, just change the conditions around to mark the email messages as you desire.*

This one will mark any received emails that you have not responded with an "AwaitingReply" label.

As I mention in my Gist comment, I used this a lot to make sure we didn't have any emails slipping through the cracks.

https://gist.github.com/colinloretz/9299685

* I know you're volunteering first month "payment" but since I came across this somewhere on the web and can't find the original source (I'll keep looking), here it is. Hopefully it will help you or someone else.

Re: A Request for a Startup: Gmail 'Waiting For Reply' Tab

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Post by kartikt »

yeukhon wrote: post #7

You can just build an extension or addon. I don't see revenue for that kind of model (the only possibility is that someone makes a dashboard aggregates data from multiple accounts, multiple providers). You can try to achieve this with the help from reusing https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js or similar attempt.

Adding UI heavy features with that library is going to be painful (especially a whole new tab interface). It's designed for a rather 'active' interaction with emails (I made it). Most of the auto reply algorithmic stuff can be accomplished through context.io
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