The correct pronunciation is 'twenty-twelve', not 'two thousand and twelve'.
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#12What I really want is to stop my email inbox from being a notification area. It doesn't feel right for notifications. Foo replied to your post. Bug X has been fixed in project Y. All that stuff doesn't belong in my email inbox. What I'd really like is a single online notification service. I imagine signing up for a service somewhere, and I just plunk my special notification address somewhere in the settings. The serv…
"What I'd really like is a single online notification service..."
Everything you say about this sounds exactly like hosted email to me. How is it different?
To me, the problem with email is the time it takes to manage it: filter, mark as read, etc. Gmail filters help with this, but it's still work. But I can't see how any notification system could know how I want things filtered without me telling it.
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#13If somebody gets so much email they ignore most of it, then they're an outlier. I'd prefer to hear the opinion of somebody who receives a normal amount of email, and what they think of the issue.
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#14What I really want is to stop my email inbox from being a notification area. It doesn't feel right for notifications. Foo replied to your post. Bug X has been fixed in project Y. All that stuff doesn't belong in my email inbox. What I'd really like is a single online notification service. I imagine signing up for a service somewhere, and I just plunk my special notification address somewhere in the settings. The serv…
Perhaps IFTTT (http://ifttt.com/wtf) might be a start towards what you're looking for?
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#15What I really want is to stop my email inbox from being a notification area. It doesn't feel right for notifications. Foo replied to your post. Bug X has been fixed in project Y. All that stuff doesn't belong in my email inbox. What I'd really like is a single online notification service. I imagine signing up for a service somewhere, and I just plunk my special notification address somewhere in the settings. The serv…
"What I'd really like is a single online notification service..." Everything you say about this sounds exactly like hosted email to me. How is it different? To me, the problem with email is the time it takes to manage it: filter, mark as read, etc. Gmail filters help with this, but it's still work. But I can't see how any notification system could know how I want things filtered without me telling it.
It would be nice if the community would agree on a simple header that indicates "notification" so it's easier to filter automatically.
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#16Wait... I don't get this.
The guy has "thousands of unread items in my inbox" that he will never get to.
His priority inbox has 26 unread messages of which only 9 are directed to him (others are mailing list, sent by a machine whatever that means and newsletters).
I presume his "normal inbox" has the same ratio of email "from machines" and directed to him directly since there is no reason to be any other way.
To me this paints a picture of a person who does not take care of his inbox and he wants me to send an email to him? Really? That guy wants to "talk to me" and he wants to get an email from me, presumably so he can write a blog post about having thousands of emails in his inbox? Nope, I don't get it.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
"What I'd really like is a single online notification service..." Everything you say about this sounds exactly like hosted email to me. How is it different? To me, the problem with email is the time it takes to manage it: filter, mark as read, etc. Gmail filters help with this, but it's still work. But I can't see how any notification system could know how I want things filtered without me telling it.
It would be nice if the community would agree on a simple header that indicates "notification" so it's easier to filter automatically.
You can use address tags to sign up for notifications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags E.g. if your email is username@gmail.com you can sign up for bugfix notifications as username+bugfix@gmail.com which makes inbox filtering much, much easier.
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#18What I really want is to stop my email inbox from being a notification area. It doesn't feel right for notifications. Foo replied to your post. Bug X has been fixed in project Y. All that stuff doesn't belong in my email inbox. What I'd really like is a single online notification service. I imagine signing up for a service somewhere, and I just plunk my special notification address somewhere in the settings. The serv…
This to me is what Google Wave should've been - a plug-in to Gmail that allows notifications as well as free-form discussions involving complex media types.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
"What I'd really like is a single online notification service..." Everything you say about this sounds exactly like hosted email to me. How is it different? To me, the problem with email is the time it takes to manage it: filter, mark as read, etc. Gmail filters help with this, but it's still work. But I can't see how any notification system could know how I want things filtered without me telling it.
It would be nice if the community would agree on a simple header that indicates "notification" so it's easier to filter automatically.
There are three currently defined headers that I can think of: Subject, Comments and Keywords. Personally, I think I would pick Keywords, but that's me.