realtime inbox visualisation

benfoxall commented 10 years ago

I'm pretty bad at dealing with email:

I've been at inbox zero a couple of times, but it's always slipped after a while.

I was thinking that having a publically visible status of my inbox might help:

making me open about my inbox might make me more likely to fix it (related to #20)
people would know why I might not have responded to their messages, and maybe help me out with it.
having data would allow me to analyse if particular things help me process emails (I could see if assigning time to respond helps)

Implementation - cube might be a nice way to store it. Could have different graphs for unread/read, work/home

olorton commented 10 years ago

Yes! fucking get on top of this. Inbox-Zero ftw. Also another interesting read: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/dec/21/keeping-email-address-secret-spambots by Cory Doctrow

benfoxall commented 10 years ago

there's a draft version of the post online now - http://benjaminbenben.com/2014/07/02/emails/

benfoxall commented 10 years ago

@olorton, andy - do you think there's anything I should add?

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