I've always wondered if a "tweetdeck interface for email" would make sense. Basic column for white listed important people, add columns for filters (search terms, groups of people,etc.) and other parameters. People can write longer emails, but the form factor enforces things to be shorter when they can. Integrate in some simple plugins for media sharing (pictures, video, large doc attachments). It would also know when notifications came in from facebook,twitter,etc. since each service usually uses a certain email address. This is my killer email app. If someone builds it, name your price, and ill be your first customer.
"Gmail knows who these people are and I can't for the life of me understand why they don't build a tool to source up all of those emails automatically. Please build that feature google."
I think PB said they had built it, but they never released it because they couldn't figure out the right UI.
Seems like the simplest way to implement this would be to add an option in the address book that says 'Automatically apply Label XYZ to this person's incoming messages' (but with less words than that).
Or a filter option for the 'From:' box that says 'In my address book' or something like that.
While slightly cumbersome, I think you can create a folder for specific people and then apply a filter to have those e-mails go directly to those folders.
I am also a gmail fan-boy. It makes me crazy to see otherwise intelligent and tech-savvy people use yahoo mail or hotmail. You know who you are. It's almost as painful to me as seeing somebody use IE instead of FF.
I'm transitioning my sister, by allowing her to pop3 it into her MS Outlook, which is how I got started. Then the day came when I just quit firing up Outlook.
It's not that easy to switch email providers when you have 10+ years of history. I have Yahooo and Gmail accounts, but all my old friends keep sending emails to Yahoo.
I know. I feel for you. I actually purchased the paid Yahoo account for my wife, so we could pop3 her yahoo over to gmail. (they only allow the pop3 access for paid accounts).
I let the rest build up in my inbox and try to get to it on the weekends.
seems to directly conflict with
4) I like to have conversations via email.
this would be like trying to converse with someone over postal mail, except it might even be faster to mail this guy a letter than wait for him to reply next weekend to your email.
I've always wondered if a "tweetdeck interface for email" would make sense. Basic column for white listed important people, add columns for filters (search terms, groups of people,etc.) and other parameters. People can write longer emails, but the form factor enforces things to be shorter when they can. Integrate in some simple plugins for media sharing (pictures, video, large doc attachments). It would also know when notifications came in from facebook,twitter,etc. since each service usually uses a certain email address. This is my killer email app. If someone builds it, name your price, and ill be your first customer.