<story><title>Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Puts</author><text>The reason nothing has replaced email yet, even tough it&amp;#x27;s an old and clonky protocol is because it&amp;#x27;s an open standard and people don&amp;#x27;t make standards any more. Today you make services (most often based on HTTP because it&amp;#x27;s a protocol any 20yr old junior programmer can handle) that are locked in, harvesting has much data about it&amp;#x27;s users as possible desperately hoping that it could monetize on this data one day.</text></comment>
<story><title>Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I never mark email as read, nor do I move it out of my inbox. I have something like 800k unread emails in my inbox.&lt;p&gt;However, I don&amp;#x27;t need to &amp;#x27;declare email bankruptcy&amp;#x27; nor do I need to clear out my inbox.. I just don&amp;#x27;t pay any attention to the read or unread status. My inbox IS my archive.&lt;p&gt;My system is this:&lt;p&gt;When I check my email, I make sure I mark the most recent email as read. Then, I look back until I find the next email marked as read. The emails between those two are the ones that are unseen.&lt;p&gt;I do a quick glance at the emails in between. If they look important, I read them. If they are important but I don&amp;#x27;t want to deal with it now, I &amp;#x27;star&amp;#x27; it in gmail. If it isn&amp;#x27;t important, I just don&amp;#x27;t do anything.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t quite get the need to have an empty inbox or to read every email.</text></comment>