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Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by mgalgs »

jakemmarsh wrote: post #38
nambit wrote: post #34

Just a heads up, their planned free version limits you to 500 items per month: https://monolist.co/pricing I absolutely despise this kind of 'free' offering since it's more of a demo than an actual offer. Split it by user count, split it by features but the whole purpose of this thing is rendered moot by that limit.

Oops, that pricing page was actually left up erroneously (thus why it's not linked anywhere). That was a previous pricing model that is no longer active. Monolist is currently entirely free while we're in this open beta and development phase. We actually abandoned that model because we agree with you. Limiting the number of items per month would be going against the use case of the product.

How will you be monetizing it?

Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by jakemmarsh »

mgalgs wrote: post #51
jakemmarsh wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oops, that pricing page was actually left up erroneously (thus why it's not linked anywhere). That was a previous pricing model that is no longer active. Monolist is currently entirely free while we're in this open beta and development phase. We actually abandoned that model because we agree with you. Limiting the number of items per month would be going against the use case of the product.

How will you be monetizing it?

We think a lot of the same problems that Monolist is solving for the individual also exist for cross-functional teams. The plan is to eventually offer paid enterprise and team-based features.

Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by citrablue »

djaychela wrote: post #23

My main use for inbox is snooze - it's allowed me to manage and prioritise emails brilliantly over the last couple of years. I also far prefer the clean interface to Gmail. As a result of the demise of inbox, I'm looking for a replacement, but it will need a native android app for me, alas, so I guess I'll be stuck with Gmail after March 2019...

I use (and pay for, ~$50/mo.) an awesome plugin called Gmelius. It really upgrades the gmail experience to a professional-grade system. Also lets you strip out a ton of the unnecessary gmail web chrome.

Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by nambit »

jakemmarsh wrote: post #52
mgalgs wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will you be monetizing it?

We think a lot of the same problems that Monolist is solving for the individual also exist for cross-functional teams. The plan is to eventually offer paid enterprise and team-based features.

Thanks for that. I'll be giving it a try

Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by flipsticks »

akshaynathan wrote: post #14
thoraces wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to reiterate that bundling is absolutely essential to me. Specifically I make newsletters come once a week and burn through them batch so that I don’t get distracted; I bundle activism emails together so that I can be engaged but don’t feel spammed all the time; etc. without that I also would feel no strong reason to use Monolist - hope you make something powerful!

Thanks, we'll reach out as we spec out bundling, looking forward to hearing your feedback.

It's a real encouragement for those of who are looking for a replacement. While your current feature-set isn't everything we're after, I'm keen to see how you flesh it out!

I'll be keeping an eye on this tool, thanks for being responsive to all of our comments!

Re: Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features

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Post by dev_parrott »

For me, the place where inbox mattered was as an email client, not a task manager. I like the task manager metaphor for an email client, and they way that it made me think about my email, but I never wanted to apply that to my other workflows. I just liked the inbox email client.
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