I'm glad our work at Xobni inspired you and your friends to discuss fixing email over dinner. You've come up with a really great list of features. We've thought about a lot of these same ideas. We are really looking forward to showing you and the rest of the web what we have spent the last 14 months developing.
btw, you should update your about page. I had to use the whois to find out who you are!
Reading your thoughts clicked me one more thought : how about a field (in addition to TO, cc, bcc, Subject ) etc, where the sender (while sending the e-mail) can specify the duration, within which if the email is not marked as 'read' then the sender should be informed (via an e-mail saying that the sent e-mail is still marked as 'unread' in the receiver's inbox). Most of the times i face this difficulty that i supposed that the person might have read the sent e-mail and i take most of the things as granted.
-Sumit
Tathagata
· 2 years ago
I still like the email-as-the-mother-of-all communication modes idea, most. :-) Everything under one umbrella.
Using the "To:" and "CC:" fields for a greater analysis and building widgets around the email service would be useful things to have.
Get the next one out soon.
ashish
· 2 years ago
@Sumit :- Would love to have your feature on board. This feature requires support from other person's mailbox as well. I'm sure there will be a portion of pricavy paraniods screaming "WTF!! i do not want this" :) But it makes into my list.
Thanks for suggesting it.
Ashish
Dan W
· 2 years ago
On the other hand, perhaps we shouldn't fix email. I'm sure we've all used "Sorry, my inbox is a mess" as an excuse for not replying to a mail. If email gets fixed that won't be a viable excuse and we'll just have to be honest!
ashish
· 2 years ago
@Dan :- Agree with you on that :) completely!
PP
· 2 years ago
Hey - remembered this post when I read about this product called 3dmailbox.com.
Sometimes stupid ideas get so much attention from seemingly intelligent people that its funny.
Hopefully the guys at Xobni are NOT looking at this in their competitive survey. Reminds me of UniveRSS - a 3d way of seeing RSS feeds (by MS)
Deva Hazarika
· 2 years ago
Ashish,
Stumbled onto this blog post. That is a really well thought out list and mirrors a lot of what I've been working on for the past few years.
At my company, we've focused for a few years for prioritizing and ordering the incoming emails in your inbox. We also bring together related information such as email threads, calendar items, and tasks based on the context of that information. Another thing we've spent a good amount of time working on is various ways to automatically classify information both in terms of content and what type of device/medium the information is best suited for - should a response be an email, IM, or SMS, for example? Automated followup notification is a very useful feature that we've had in the product for quite some time.
Check out our site at www.clearcontext.com for more information and read more thoughts on future stuff on my blog www.emaildashboard.com. I look forward to hearing more from you on this topic.
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I'm glad our work at Xobni inspired you and your friends to discuss fixing email over dinner. You've come up with a really great list of features. We've thought about a lot of these same ideas. We are really looking forward to showing you and the rest of the web what we have spent the last 14 months developing.
btw, you should update your about page. I had to use the whois to find out who you are!
Best,
Matt
www.xobni.com
Awesome thoghts dude !!! Maja aa gaya
Reading your thoughts clicked me one more thought : how about a field (in addition to TO, cc, bcc, Subject ) etc, where the sender (while sending the e-mail) can specify the duration, within which if the email is not marked as 'read' then the sender should be informed (via an e-mail saying that the sent e-mail is still marked as 'unread' in the receiver's inbox). Most of the times i face this difficulty that i supposed that the person might have read the sent e-mail and i take most of the things as granted.
-Sumit
Using the "To:" and "CC:" fields for a greater analysis and building widgets around the email service would be useful things to have.
Get the next one out soon.
Would love to have your feature on board. This feature requires support from other person's mailbox as well. I'm sure there will be a portion of pricavy paraniods screaming "WTF!! i do not want this" :) But it makes into my list.
Thanks for suggesting it.
Ashish
Sometimes stupid ideas get so much attention from seemingly intelligent people that its funny.
Hopefully the guys at Xobni are NOT looking at this in their competitive survey. Reminds me of UniveRSS - a 3d way of seeing RSS feeds (by MS)
Stumbled onto this blog post. That is a really well thought out list and mirrors a lot of what I've been working on for the past few years.
At my company, we've focused for a few years for prioritizing and ordering the incoming emails in your inbox. We also bring together related information such as email threads, calendar items, and tasks based on the context of that information. Another thing we've spent a good amount of time working on is various ways to automatically classify information both in terms of content and what type of device/medium the information is best suited for - should a response be an email, IM, or SMS, for example? Automated followup notification is a very useful feature that we've had in the product for quite some time.
Check out our site at www.clearcontext.com for more information and read more thoughts on future stuff on my blog www.emaildashboard.com. I look forward to hearing more from you on this topic.