Re:Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox
by timbonicus on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:26PM
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This sounds remarkably like email to me. I don't understand the difference. I was expecting an article about ditching email-type communication entirely, which I wouldn't dream of doing but would be an interesting experiment.
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Re:Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox
by SkyMarshal on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:34PM
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Agreed. It sounds like he's throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and then badly re-inventing it with a hodgepodge of other services.
Re:Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox
by jfeldstein2 on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:15PM
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Came here to post the same. The problem has more to do with how he uses online communication than with any particular tool.
Re:Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox
by mfonda on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:33PM
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As for ditching email-like communications entirely, it worked well for Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Perhaps one day I will try it out!
Re:Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox
by 51Cards on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:54PM
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Even he still requires email from time to time he admits, he just proxies them through his secretary. I wish I had one of those myself to filter my communications with the world. Then I wouldn't have email or anything. Just a wonderful assistant who managed it all and let me be free to focus on other things. I need me a Pepper Potts to my Tony Stark dammit!