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Re:Why we will no longer have to hate email (and why Mailbox... by dschwartz88 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:13PM (#5409067)
Mailbox and this solve completely different problems. I love Mailbox because it creates the notion that "read" does not mean done (and I can ask it to remind me about stuff). It also makes my email my todo app, which is nice since I only have to have one app. This is a really powerful change to the way i've used email and has made me more way more productive and organized.

SquareOne looks really interesting, and I think it and Mailbox could complement each other, but to me SquareOne is super smart filters for mail, while Mailbox changes the way I use email in its base form.

Re:Why we will no longer have to hate email (and why Mailbox... by jmock on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:39PM (#5410547)
It's cool that MailBox will remind you later about a message you want to revisit. But apart from this, how does their notion of marking for later differ from starring/flagging a message in a conventional mail client? It seems like all they've really done is rebrand flagging with reminders built in.