I remember pg saying something like "email is a todo list that lets anyone in the world add items to the top" but the actual quote isn't quite as good: http://

I remember pg saying something like "email is a todo list that lets anyone in the world add items to the top" but the actual quote isn't quite as good: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it. But it is a disastrously bad todo list.