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I'd love to see "non-email" things living in the inbox. I'd receive or could create a new Google doc, a wiki, a blank 'pastebin' type document, a Google Wave t
by pkamb 15y ago
I'd love to see "non-email" things living in the inbox.
I'd receive or could create a new Google doc, a wiki, a blank 'pastebin' type document, a Google Wave type thing, etc. It would sit in my inbox, exactly like an email. But clicking the subject would load the new type of file right there rather than take me to an email.
I don't want links/notifications of the new service, I want to click on an 'email' in my inbox and have it instead load the other service, right there. Does that make sense?
- fjabre 15y agoInteresting idea. So the rows in your inbox would also function as links to other kind of objects instead of just using them to open an email. It would certainly make getting at the content inside an email faster. This would mean you'd have to put enough smarts in the email parser to determine what kind of content is inside the email and then take the appropriate action.
- pkamb 15y agoYeah, exactly what I mean. Rows in the inbox = links to a type of content. This is in my opinion why Google Wave failed. No one wants another inbox to check. But, instead of an email, having the option to send a "super email" with advanced features? And right from your same email inbox? Yes please.
- zbruhnke 15y agothis would also lend itself to viruses being much more potent so security would have to be heightened in several ways
- pkamb 15y agoP.S. I'm not talking about letting any old content open itself automatically. Just a list of pre-approved things, like Google Docs, a Wave, a text document, etc. So instead of getting an email notification that someone has shared a Google doc with me, the doc just shows up in my inbox. It's not an email being parsed to show me the content, it's just... the content.