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(No affiliation with Helm just a happy customer for more than a year and hoping they succeed.)
Besides the simple routing, I just like the Hey app interface across macOS/iOS/web. The Gmail app never played nice with sending from my custom domain, and I will never subject myself to Apple's buggy mail app again. So I'm curious if there are other mail apps Fastmail users like on iOS/macOS.
I seriously thought about quitting after the Basecamp fiasco, but ultimately realized my entire email workflow is now centered around HEY and it's greatly improved my quality of life. So I use it like I use any other online service from a company I don't particularly like. _shrug_
Every time I read this type of post I get amazed at how primitive my use of personal email is. No folders, no tags, no rules. Just inbox and read status. Ditched gmail for iCloud a few years ago. Simple, cheap, well integrated.
About once a month, I unsubscribe in bulk, and delete in bulk. Other than that, I scan my inbox once every day or two and read anything that seems relevant (maybe a handful of emails per week).
I love how a bunch of the "headline features" of Hey are effectively replicated with taking the time to make a few rules in another platform. I tried Hey at the peak of it's pre-release hype, but just like Basecamp, it's just a really mediocre experience in a sea of options.
I still pay for Fastmail, yet I route all messages over to HEY. There's just no replicating the UX (Fastmail's web UI is…suboptimal…and I'm thoroughly over using Apple Mail). And there are a ton of neat little touches throughout HEY beyond just the immediate filtering of incoming messages. It's simplistic to think you can just add a few rules on some other system and you're done. I seriously thought about quitting af…
Hey itself is a bit lackluster though.
I went with Fastmail and am very happy.
Tons of aliases that are easy to use, the UX is actually _much better_ than Gmail.
Every time I read this type of post I get amazed at how primitive my use of personal email is. No folders, no tags, no rules. Just inbox and read status. Ditched gmail for iCloud a few years ago. Simple, cheap, well integrated.
Same. I pretty much scan it, anything interesting I open(which isn't a ton). Then, about once every few months, I get tired of seeing 20k unread emails, so delete all unread emails older than x. Perhaps I'm not a power user, or constant marketing emails have just made me numb to it all.
IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing emails is one of the biggest selling point as far as I see). But for me, I just want a reliable, dumb, boring email service without any "smart" features. I will decide what to do with every type of incoming emails myself. Fastmail gives me exactly that.