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Email is not broken. The usage of email is however mishandled. - Overload of messages - Email Search / Discovery - Finding important content - Unnecessary C

by chany2 13y ago

Email is not broken. The usage of email is however mishandled. - Overload of messages - Email Search / Discovery - Finding important content - Unnecessary CCs - Major contents still live in emails - Go-to place for everything; filtering important vs non-important @byoung2, I think you reference a critical problem with email as I listed above. Sorting emails by "Actionable Categorization" by both sender and recipient. Getting hold of the most important information asap without re-reading the content. Currently, I am hacking with an idea on Hashtags for Important Email. - Sender can write hashtag inside contents of the emails to group them appropriately for the recipient. - Multiple users using hashtag help group important content together; leading to a Sharepoint for Email. - Long email threads would be summarize to get the most relevant information possible. Love to get your feedback @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659

byoung2 13y ago
Sounds interesting...I'll take a look at the other thread. I like the idea of hashtags for flexible categorization, but I think we need to go further, e.g. now I can see all #startup #article emails my coworker sent me, or all #vacation #photo emails from my college roommate who travels for a living, but do I really have to click into each email to get the link to each article or image attachment? Can't there be something that lets me choose hashtags:#vacation #photo,sender:John Doe and returns a CoverFlow type gallery of all the images, with the text of the emails as captions? Or hashtags:#startup #article to get a Flipboard type personalized magazine made up of the formatted text of all of the articles found.
- chany2 13y ago
  I put your idea into consideration. See Image#3 at http://garyyauchan.com/sharepoint-for-emails/ http://garyyauchan.com/sharepoint-for-emails/ . I definitely see the need only if this new Important-Email-Inbox on my app becomes very abundant with content. Then the need to filter becomes important. There are two things I want to stay away from at that moment. 1) Calling this app I am developing as a "New Inbox", I think it would give the idea there is another source for their incoming mails. The idea is you hashtag ONLY IMPORTANT EMAILS to set yourself as a reminder, etc... 2) I would also like to avoid the Search / Filtering feature - which leads back down to the road of Gmail's Search. One of the cases for developing this app is because Search is not intelligent enough when there is a massive volume of emails. Also I am going to re-think the idea of Flipboard as the new UI medium to become the differentiator to other email apps. Great feedback btw!

by chany2 13y ago

byoung2 13y ago

Sounds interesting...I'll take a look at the other thread. I like the idea of hashtags for flexible categorization, but I think we need to go further, e.g. now I can see all #startup #article emails my coworker sent me, or all #vacation #photo emails from my college roommate who travels for a living, but do I really have to click into each email to get the link to each article or image attachment? Can't there be something that lets me choose hashtags:#vacation #photo,sender:John Doe and returns a CoverFlow type gallery of all the images, with the text of the emails as captions? Or hashtags:#startup #article to get a Flipboard type personalized magazine made up of the formatted text of all of the articles found.

chany2 13y ago
I put your idea into consideration. See Image#3 at http://garyyauchan.com/sharepoint-for-emails/ http://garyyauchan.com/sharepoint-for-emails/ . I definitely see the need only if this new Important-Email-Inbox on my app becomes very abundant with content. Then the need to filter becomes important. There are two things I want to stay away from at that moment. 1) Calling this app I am developing as a "New Inbox", I think it would give the idea there is another source for their incoming mails. The idea is you hashtag ONLY IMPORTANT EMAILS to set yourself as a reminder, etc... 2) I would also like to avoid the Search / Filtering feature - which leads back down to the road of Gmail's Search. One of the cases for developing this app is because Search is not intelligent enough when there is a massive volume of emails. Also I am going to re-think the idea of Flipboard as the new UI medium to become the differentiator to other email apps. Great feedback btw!