![]() I'm sure you've felt your heart sink after hitting the send button on an email. They’ve yet to say much so it’s hard to tell what’s coming.Sending emails has become second nature to most of us, but despite it being a part of our daily lives, sometimes mistakes slip through the cracks. Some ideas that have yet to state their goals but promise some magic are Evomail(below), and Unibox. Far fetched for sure, but any idea that leaves email behind always will be. Perhaps employees can opt in, or duck out of conversations as they wish and the only ones you see by default are ones where your name is mentioned. If this turns out to be a good way to work, then a good solution might a global company communication product which only falls back to email when involving outsiders. Stripe, for example, has a global mail stream that everyone can access. This means that CC’s, BCC’s, and other email etiquette are less longer necessary. Modern companies are quite flat & transparent in comparison with those who most email clients were designed for. These type of products show the potential of thorough mail analysis. TripIt gobbles up travel emails and creates my travel plans, Easily Do analyses all of my mails, augments all my contacts, schedules all my events, and creates a day to day plan for me. We have yet to see a product truly make use of the goldmine of data that sits in our inboxes. Gmail probably has the data to know more about me than any other product or even person in the whole wide world. It offers so much, but only becomes useful when packaged as a solution to a problem, rather than yet another “ Here’s some numbers you can tweet” tool. Prioritisation and AnalyticsĪnalytics is the perpetual “tool in search of a job”. Alto Mail seems to the only one to tip toe in this direction, but I hope that we’ll see deeper social awareness in mail clients. Of all products Gmail should be able to tell me who I should follow, or put an email in perspective using social data. Someone messages you, click “Reply via Facebook”. Someone follows you, click follow and archive. Responding to social network notifications and even comments could be done from the client, not outside it. Rapportive is an amazing hack for this, but there’s so much more to be done. In an age where people connect their Twitter and Facebook accounts just to watch a video, it seems woefully naive that mail clients can’t also be connected. This is a real quick win, and it’s frankly staggering that Gmail have yet to offer anything like it. Someone needs to work on this.Īlto Mail (shown above) launched this as one of their defining features, other products are hinting at it. The success of shows us that “smart by default” is certainly possible. Seriously? We’re mining asteroids and skydiving from space, but Gmail still doesn’t offer a smart way to handle my mail subscriptions. I’m sure you’ve heard of the popular hack “Search your mail for the word unsubscribe and that’ll tell you all the lists your on, go through them one-by-one and unsubscribe”. The same goes for mailing lists that I am on, newsletters I receive, and work related mails (e.g. I should be able to view all Amazon orders without setting up rules & memorizing substrings to search by. ![]() “Smart by default” is a good guideline here. It will understand that these products regularly send me notifications and receipts. In 2013 I like to think that my email client will be aware that there are products like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, and more. ![]()
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