Show HN: Hashtags for Email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659
by chany2 • 13 years ago
11 8 13 years ago

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Demo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69mqGL08_hc

Hashtagging Important Emails

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Problems Being Solved:

1) Personal - Help organize your important emails and group conversation threads regardless of subject header.

2) Team Projects - Much of the content lives in the emails. Hashtagging relevant and milestone project emails into a central team access hub or a Sharepoint for Emails. This enable project progression tracking as oppose to creating a separate project log typically with Excel.

3) Work - Replaces overwhelming, unnecessary or less-critical CC'ed emails. Instead, invite users onto a Hashtag thread for them to read at their own time.

4) Search - Existing Search features are inadequate. Really requires the user to remember the content/context of the email before search can begin.

5) Sharepoint - Mostly use as storing files. Lacks files context and project description.

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Experience:

- Organizing through hashtag in the email content is a more fluent experience than reorganizing your emails into folders, which is only for personal view, and not team based.

- Max numbers of hashtags in emails can be set.

- New social rules would be created that I cannot control. Within a professional setting, if employees are using hashtags in excess, they would be flown upon.

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Testing Assumption:

- Market would be focusing largely on professionals and will also have an Enterprise-dedicated product.

- Hashtag currently associates with entertainment. Social fear of it in professional communications.

- Frequency of use. Crux of inbox overload from massive unnecessary emails. Organizing important threads from non-important messages.

- Quotes and Research @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RQtgYl44iBnr_p4toc4G7_N0DG9bZ35JKHTLBNqtG0c/edit?usp=sharing

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