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~5% of the average population is on Gmail, with 43%+ of users out there still stuck in Outlook. I always wonder why we don't see a more concerted effort to bui
by aresant 16y ago
~5% of the average population is on Gmail, with 43%+ of users out there still stuck in Outlook.
I always wonder why we don't see a more concerted effort to build a dead-simple email prioritizer / labeler for Outlook.
Outlook has decent extension management features - Xobni has made some inroads but I feel like it addresses a much more complex set of needs and is unweildy for solving this basic problem.
Microsoft made a somewhat interesting attempt w/their "email prioritizer" extension in MS Labs but they killed it rather quickly and I haven't seen much progress in releases that are managable / simple enough for the average user.
So amongst all the hackers of hacker news is anybody working on a project along these lines?
email prioritizer ref: http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-button-auto+ranking-to-email http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-...
43% ref : http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats
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- Semiapies 16y agoAfter I realized that Outlook's built-in filtering had a ridiculously low circa-1985 limit to its code, I just built a Python script to file things in my inbox. I haven't bothered making it user-friendly or "smart", however - it just goes by rules expressed in a yaml file.