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Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

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Re: Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

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Airmail for macOS tries to do that: http://docs.airmailapp.com/airmail-for-mac/services-provided... , https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/

Looks cool, but it doesn't seem that one can add reminders to the same hierarchy as emails. Also, I have an Android.

Yes, reminders in the same hierarchy as emails is the secret sauce of Inbox for me.

Doesn’t look like any alternative has it.

Re: Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

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Superhuman https://superhuman.com/

As I understand it you can't add Inbox-style reminders, can you? Also, it's $35/month and it has a lot of feature that I don't need (like collecting peoples Social Media profiles etc.)

You can set reminders for emails to come back to your inbox both at send and separately when reviewing email. It also has read receipts. And the hotkeys and shortcuts are super powerful. Worth the $ if you have to spend a lot of time in email for the efficiency increase alone.

Re: Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understand it you can't add Inbox-style reminders, can you? Also, it's $35/month and it has a lot of feature that I don't need (like collecting peoples Social Media profiles etc.)

You can set reminders for emails to come back to your inbox both at send and separately when reviewing email. It also has read receipts. And the hotkeys and shortcuts are super powerful. Worth the $ if you have to spend a lot of time in email for the efficiency increase alone.

It's not the reminder of emails that the OP is talking about. You can do that in Gmail. It's the freedom of adding any reminder to your inbox, not related to emails, that made a huge difference.
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