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- Email is broken. There's no way for me to sort through 300 unread messages except to manually sort through them. What's important? What's junk? What's ti

- Email is broken. There's no way for me to sort through 300 unread messages except to manually sort through them. What's important? What's junk? What's time sensitive? What's not? Which is social? Which is work? - Hosted bug tracking software sucks. It's ridiculous. Make something pretty and simple-but-extensible - Travel research online is terrible. I live and breath the interwebs, but whenever I travel, I buy a freakin' book. How ridiculous is that? - Search STILL sucks.

nazgulnarsil 19y ago
email idea: tags as part of your email address. for generic mail you use your regular email address me@host.com commerical stuff or whatever gets sent there. your folders become inboxes for emails tagged with that folders name me@host.com/friends automatically gets routed to your friends inbox. you could make it so that anyone can make their own tags then give them out to subsets of their freinds as needed. example me@host.com/coworkers me@host.com/spam (for when you use your email to sign up for stuff online) that way lower priority folders only have to be checked when you know something is coming to them. and as spammers catch onto this you just make your tags less obvious.
- aneesh 19y ago
  This already exists - you can accomplish this with a plus sign in your address. If your address is bill@gates.com, then bill+anything@gates.com will be routed to you (the plus sign is critical). So you can use bill+work@gates.com, bill+foundation@gates.com, etc, and set up filters based on the address the mail was sent to. Voila!
  - staticshock 19y ago
    i know for a fact this works in gmail, since they advertised it, but i didn't know this was standard
    - alex_c 19y ago
      AFAIK, it is part of the email standard, but not actually supported by all providers.
      - nazgulnarsil 19y ago
        how come no one uses this? thanks for the info.
DustinMooney 19y ago
- What do you think is wrong with Search? And how would you fix it? - How would you fix email?
drewp 19y ago
Bug tracking shouldn't be hosted, in general. I should be able to declare a bug in anything by posting it on my blog, and people can do their commenting/triage/fileposting/whatever else they do by using Regular Internet Technology. There is a data format standard issue to be solved and a few search issues. A project can have a central bug tracking site for people who don't have blogs, but if I don't like that UI I should be able to switch to another. My proposal also helps a lot when issue tracking is spread across companies. I find an in-house issue which I report to my own team; and then they want to forward it to some outside vendor. Much effort is wasted maintaining the links between the system used by the in-house team and the one used by the vendor. http://code.google.com/p/baetle/ http://code.google.com/p/baetle/ has some plans for the data model and format.

nazgulnarsil 19y ago

email idea: tags as part of your email address. for generic mail you use your regular email address me@host.com commerical stuff or whatever gets sent there. your folders become inboxes for emails tagged with that folders name me@host.com/friends automatically gets routed to your friends inbox. you could make it so that anyone can make their own tags then give them out to subsets of their freinds as needed. example me@host.com/coworkers me@host.com/spam (for when you use your email to sign up for stuff online) that way lower priority folders only have to be checked when you know something is coming to them. and as spammers catch onto this you just make your tags less obvious.

aneesh 19y ago
This already exists - you can accomplish this with a plus sign in your address. If your address is bill@gates.com, then bill+anything@gates.com will be routed to you (the plus sign is critical). So you can use bill+work@gates.com, bill+foundation@gates.com, etc, and set up filters based on the address the mail was sent to. Voila!
- staticshock 19y ago
  i know for a fact this works in gmail, since they advertised it, but i didn't know this was standard
  - alex_c 19y ago
    AFAIK, it is part of the email standard, but not actually supported by all providers.
    - nazgulnarsil 19y ago
      how come no one uses this? thanks for the info.

DustinMooney 19y ago

- What do you think is wrong with Search? And how would you fix it? - How would you fix email?

drewp 19y ago

Bug tracking shouldn't be hosted, in general. I should be able to declare a bug in anything by posting it on my blog, and people can do their commenting/triage/fileposting/whatever else they do by using Regular Internet Technology. There is a data format standard issue to be solved and a few search issues. A project can have a central bug tracking site for people who don't have blogs, but if I don't like that UI I should be able to switch to another. My proposal also helps a lot when issue tracking is spread across companies. I find an in-house issue which I report to my own team; and then they want to forward it to some outside vendor. Much effort is wasted maintaining the links between the system used by the in-house team and the one used by the vendor. http://code.google.com/p/baetle/ http://code.google.com/p/baetle/ has some plans for the data model and format.