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This looks pretty cool, but I have a philosophical hangup about my task list being in email. The problem is that ones email inbox is a place where other people
by dasil003 10y ago
This looks pretty cool, but I have a philosophical hangup about my task list being in email. The problem is that ones email inbox is a place where other people decide what shows up there.
I realize that people have a lot of responsibilities in email, and for some people email may even be a majority of their job. I've definitely been in that position. But even if I am spending the majority of my time in Gmail, I still take a hard stance that my personal todos need to live outside of email lest I lose agency over my own priorities.
- gwatters 10y agoThis sounds amazingly similar to the beginning of our post on Medium [1]. As you point out, email is only part of the whole picture. We're aiming to add the tools to organize email along with your personal/business todos without giving up that agency. Snippet: "Would you use a todo list where all your tasks are created by someone else, and you can’t prioritize or rearrange them? Of course not — they’re your tasks, so you should be in control. Using a todo list sorted only by creation time would be incredibly frustrating. But that’s exactly what email is." [1] https://medium.com/moo-do/were-making-email-a-powerful-todo-list-a418d6ef0580#.ez6txkd3p https://medium.com/moo-do/were-making-email-a-powerful-todo-...
- EuAndreh 10y agoIt really sounds like pg's suggestion to "replace email"[0]. I've never had (so far) any problem with managing my inbox, but since many can see the clear correlation between email <-> todo list, I'd say you're on to something. [0]: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html