Comments on: How email, loathed but indispensable, might finally enter the future

By: TK

TK — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:22:45 +0000

Also check out this recap of the Inbox Love conference, highlighting exactly how big of an opportunity email is:

www1.toutapp.com/blog/the-state-of-the-email-union

By: Gander

Gander — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:25:29 +0000

That’s on the Trello board.

By: Bob Nelson

Bob Nelson — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:31:31 +0000

What about Inky (www.inky.com)?

By: TwistedSyn

TwistedSyn — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:17:09 +0000

“And then once you get beyond a person’s actual client, you have to consider their attitudes toward reading, sorting, deleting and filtering. Are you an Inbox Zero person? A let-it-all-pile-up person? Do you even know what archiving is? (Troy points out that many people don’t.) So this means that one person’s idea of an email solution dream might make absolutely no sense to someone else. Everyone has their own email habits, and engineers trying to innovate in the space need to understand the client’s habits, which isn’t easy.”

Troy I believe U R missing the Big Picture here. People will always take the system they R GIVEN to work with and modify it to work as closely as possible with the way they think will best suite their way of working. Any New and BETTER ideas U innovate will be modified. So quit worrying about what people R doing with the old software and give them a better product, let the modifiers do whatever they want to make their work day better.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:52 +0000

Unroll.me (http://unroll.me) is a great tool for managing email.
Simply enter your Gmail address and Unroll.me pulls up all of your subscriptions.
You can unsubscribe from the emails that you don’t want, and place the rest in your Rollup.
The Rollup combines all of your subscriptions into one daily digest.
Extremely useful!

By: Tom Krazit

Tom Krazit — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:59:59 +0000

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to declare that very few people who work in corporate environments love email. That’s a lot more than 5,000 people. You might want to read the UC Irvine study linked in the story for more information, particularly the section on stress levels.

By: ronald

ronald — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:36:22 +0000

Why is there an inbox?
What is broken, MTA, MDA, MUA?

I think the thinking about email is broken in some closed circles of tech. The inbox is just a arbitrary consolidated organization, it should be context. Means for most people and organizations the problem is in MDA (should be MOA, Mail Organization Agent) and to a larger part MUA( should be distributed over context).

By: m

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:31:05 +0000

I wouldn’t rate myself in the tech elite, but I both need to communicate asynchronously, and to have uninterrupted time where a phone call can wreck hours of creative thinking. Email suits that purpose admirably. Admittedly I use multiple email addresses.

By: sam parker

sam parker — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:53:44 +0000

Thank you for the info. I do loathe email. Can’t lie, I was hoping you would tell me I could now train my cat to manage my gmail account, this is the next best thing though :)

Sam Parker
http://www.Jobcast.net/blog

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:46:43 +0000

This is interesting, but its hard to believe that email will exist unless it changes radically. It is simply too much nonsense and too hard to operate. What I predict is that social communication will take over simply because it filters the noise, holds a record of conversations and is about connection, not address. I wrote about this here:

http://successfulworkplace.com/2011/12/14/will-social-technology-kill-email-bpm-socialbpm-social/

But it deserves an update. We use our own product at work and there are many, including the C-level, who can’t be reached any other way. That says something…