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Let us also remember Inbox, haven’t been able to manage day through my calendar, tasks and email in one place as seamlessly since that one was sunset.

by harha 6y ago

politelemon 6y ago
I am still holding out naive, idiotic hope that someone will build an Inbox replacement. And not the box-ticking feature-parity that they still haven't delivered on, but the actual intelligent workflows, while maintaining a clean uncluttered experience, that Inbox was so good at. I do understand though, that a lot of people who didn't "get" Inbox will not understand this sentiment either. But there are dozens of us! The closest I'm finding now, strangely, is Outlook, and MS Todo. Through a combination of flagged emails and the archive function. Though it's still in multiple places and not one. SparkMail app helps as well with slightly advanced snoozing, but nowhere near the Inbox experience. I'm bitter now, thanks
- PascLeRasc 6y ago
  I think I’ve tried basically every email client out there since Inbox shut down and haven’t found a satisfying replacement. I’ve found Twobird to be the closest though.
- harha 6y ago
  Having To-dos and Calendar entries pop up at the right time, eliminating the need to switch apps in the daily flow, it was all such a work of genius. I never got used to Outlook, though I don't recall why, and now I'm back to what macOS has, even though it feels so basic and I sometimes end up unprepared for meetings or have them in the wrong time zone because I add them through Mail but can't edit them in Calendar. Inbox without Google would be such a great product, if I had a team to work with I would take on this problem (I'm a PM happy to contribute what I can if anyone is interested): - The main useful features don't have that many "smart" parts, I think it would take some translation layer into all the different protocols to appear seamless. That's probably the hardest part to implement given how ancient e-mail, calendar, tasks are (at least from a user perspective, I must admit, I don't know much about the protocols). - The "smart" features, such as trips could be implemented as plugins. - Add an interface for custom plug-ins and this would integrate so well both in individual workflows of power users and teams.

Let us also remember Inbox, haven’t been able to manage day through my calendar, tasks and email in one place as seamlessly since that one was sunset.

by harha 6y ago

Let us also remember Inbox, haven’t been able to manage day through my calendar, tasks and email in one place as seamlessly since that one was sunset.

politelemon 6y ago

I am still holding out naive, idiotic hope that someone will build an Inbox replacement. And not the box-ticking feature-parity that they still haven't delivered on, but the actual intelligent workflows, while maintaining a clean uncluttered experience, that Inbox was so good at. I do understand though, that a lot of people who didn't "get" Inbox will not understand this sentiment either. But there are dozens of us! The closest I'm finding now, strangely, is Outlook, and MS Todo. Through a combination of flagged emails and the archive function. Though it's still in multiple places and not one. SparkMail app helps as well with slightly advanced snoozing, but nowhere near the Inbox experience. I'm bitter now, thanks

PascLeRasc 6y ago
I think I’ve tried basically every email client out there since Inbox shut down and haven’t found a satisfying replacement. I’ve found Twobird to be the closest though.
harha 6y ago
Having To-dos and Calendar entries pop up at the right time, eliminating the need to switch apps in the daily flow, it was all such a work of genius. I never got used to Outlook, though I don't recall why, and now I'm back to what macOS has, even though it feels so basic and I sometimes end up unprepared for meetings or have them in the wrong time zone because I add them through Mail but can't edit them in Calendar. Inbox without Google would be such a great product, if I had a team to work with I would take on this problem (I'm a PM happy to contribute what I can if anyone is interested): - The main useful features don't have that many "smart" parts, I think it would take some translation layer into all the different protocols to appear seamless. That's probably the hardest part to implement given how ancient e-mail, calendar, tasks are (at least from a user perspective, I must admit, I don't know much about the protocols). - The "smart" features, such as trips could be implemented as plugins. - Add an interface for custom plug-ins and this would integrate so well both in individual workflows of power users and teams.