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Thankfully I don't use e-mail much anymore. Slowly but surely all of my communication have shifted to better, but unfortunately proprietary, systems. As authentication gets more universal this will continue to happen.

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Same here.

I don’t have an email problem anymore. I have a WhatsApp, Slack, Facebook Messenger, SMS, and Skype problem now.

App spam. It gets annoying working out which app suits the message. A bit “old man shakes fist at sky” but having masses of communication methods increases the noise for me too.

I just wish we'd have OS level contact management and app integration for this, like a shell for messaging.

"Jeff is contacting you" over what? I don't care, I have a message from Jeff, and I can respond to Jeff over any protocol I choose, and the shell will show me a unified history of my IMs, chats, phonecalls, SMSes, Deathmatches, emails, chess moves, teledildonics sessions, whatever with Jeff.

Nokia N9 sort of had that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWRdtC9Cn8&feature=youtu.be...

That was my favorite feature about the n900 (predecessor to n9) - sms, skype, hangouts, whatever? They were all accessible in one place in a merged thread. Really enjoyed it.

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