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Xobni (YC company) mentioned in CNNMoney|Business2.0

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I'm thinking this is an old article he wrote years ago and updated to meet a deadline. heh. I actually checked the date of the article to see if it was written in the Before Gmail Era. I have wonder if he's ever really tried using Gmail seriously. It addresses most of his complaints pretty well.

He also says "If you're like me", but how many people are like him or a VC? He's a journalist with a hugely popular blog. Thousands of people want to take a bite out of him. I barely get nibbled at, like most people. I can't personally relate to what he's saying at all.

I think you have a very good point. The vocal people that publicly complain about email the most are also susceptible to the most overwhelming inboxes. Most of us are in a different category. However, almost everyone feels that email could be a lot better.

Has anyone here looked into David Allen's "Getting Things Done" ideas? (Mentioned in the article with a link: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117066/index.htm

A good friend of mine has been bugging me about how great this is for a couple years.

I've been using GTD for the past year and its worked out very very well.

It's strange that I've always used this philosophy of "what is the next smallest increment of code that can be written?" for development but never applied this in other areas In startups its all the more important that you don't let little things slip.

When I worked in largecorp where MS Outlook was the standard I found this book amazingly useful for GTD http://www.amazon.com/Total-Workday-Control-Microsoft-Outloo...

now since my primary platform is ubuntu I'm looking into the wiki at http://shared.snapgrid.com/index.html

Just for the record, the author, Om Malik, has not seen our software yet. He doesn't even know what we have in store for email :)

Pretty harsh words for someone who hasn't even seen your product. Now you just have to blow him away with how effective your cockroach killer really is!

I'd like an email client that automatically skins threads into a forum (like this one).

That'd be easy.

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