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Re:Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for gro... by prawn on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:07PM (#24240694)
Seems laborious to manually pin details from an email. Could Plum or the sender automatically suggest pins? Eg, any bold text? When I email people, I often bold key things so they can skim and get the details immediately.
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Re:Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for gro... by richardesigns on Saturday August 22, 2020 @02:50AM (#24242247)
Yes it could. That's a little way down the road development wise but sure, cool idea. Version 2 of the pins will include links back to the text in the email thread. If you've got 100 messages in a thread this is essential.

The skimming you mention is the level of efficiency we are trying to get to. i.e. surfacing the key pieces of information.

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