Moving from Hey to Fastmail
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Moving from Hey to Fastmail
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Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#2I also implemented a vaguely Hey-inspired system in Fastmail a year ago and it's been good.
One tweak that's really helped me: when I filter things to "The Feed", I also use the filter to snooze them until 6pm, so I only get mailing list emails once at a day.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#3IMHO, 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.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#4I 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.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#5I've also been using HEY for a year of personal email, and just renewed my subscription.
I spend a lot of time organizing and managing email at work. I have multiple inboxes, hundreds of tags, filter rules etc.
When I tried HEY for my personal gmail, it just felt like a breath of fresh air. They were wrapping friendly UX around the realities of modern email. It wasn't "work" to manage my email.
I recognize their system is limited if you want to do that stuff - not sure I'd use HEY for work yet - but if you're inundated with email (as I was, having a gmail address dating back to beta), they do a great job of making it manageable without any effort on your part.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#6Every 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.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#7I've also been using HEY for a year of personal email, and just renewed my subscription. I spend a lot of time organizing and managing email at work. I have multiple inboxes, hundreds of tags, filter rules etc. When I tried HEY for my personal gmail, it just felt like a breath of fresh air. They were wrapping friendly UX around the realities of modern email. It wasn't "work" to manage my email. I recognize their syst…
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Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#8I've also been using HEY for a year of personal email, and just renewed my subscription. I spend a lot of time organizing and managing email at work. I have multiple inboxes, hundreds of tags, filter rules etc. When I tried HEY for my personal gmail, it just felt like a breath of fresh air. They were wrapping friendly UX around the realities of modern email. It wasn't "work" to manage my email. I recognize their syst…
I use HEY for work (we're a two people company) and I love the collab features!
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#9Every 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.
Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail
#10> I researched several different services that could provide a good enough service for a reasonable price and ended up settling on Fastmail.com.
The author also talks about saving a lot of money every year. There are cheaper alternatives to Fastmail that support custom domains and have a focus on privacy. Mailbox.org and Runbox.com are a couple of them. There are more.