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Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks. Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end u
by verganileonardo 14y ago
Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks.
Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents...
That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoIf that's what you're using it for, someone has fixed email: http://trello.com http://trello.com
- verganileonardo 14y agoI'm using Trello! :) It is great if you don't have lots of leads :)
- chaddyar 14y agoMaybe in outlook...aren't most of those problems solved by gmail? :)
- verganileonardo 14y agoHow does gmail solve this problem?
- kijin 14y agoI don't think that's a reason to "fix email". Rather, it's a reason to use the right tool for the job. If you need a to-do list, use an app that does to-do lists well. If you need to keep track of changes to documents, use a version control system. What's needed, of course, is a tool that integrates all these other tools into a manageable workflow. But that's not "fixing email", either, it's just another tool.
- gklitt 14y agoI agree with this. The business context is really the one where email is most broken. Tools like Basecamp and Trello do a good job with project management, but they aren't a 100% substitute for all the various functions of email. I sometimes think that a hybrid between email and a forum/bulletin board would be the best way to manage complex communication, instead of convoluted cc lists...
- stan_rogers 14y agoYou do realise that you've just described Notes, right? If it were a new product, without all the baggage of having to be backward-compatible to the late paleolithic (R2 in '93) and with a UI consistent with everything else on the host OS, folks'd be all over it.
- qznc 14y agoEmail is not the problem here. The problem is people doing task management/version control with the wrong tool. So how do you get managers (in my case the are called professors) to use proper tools? They already know how to use email and they are convinced that it is sufficient. Maybe a simplified bug/issue tracker for task management? Maybe something like Dropbox or Time Machine for version control?