Just to add to the list of companies in that space, boomerang for gmail plugin (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) lets you schedule emails to be sent later and 'snoozes' email to view later like you described.
I personally like the plugin approach because it let's you keep using the same email client you're familiar with (in this case gmail). Cheers, Charles On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Bart Jellema <b...@rtje.net> wrote: > Hi Chris, thanks for that, I hadn't seen it yet... it's an interesting > site, but still doesn't really solve the problem I think. There are > many products out there that solve part of the problem, we'd like to > combine the best of these solutions and add a few ideas of our own. > > I've looked at a fair few solutions out there: > otherinbox.com ($3.8M+ in funding) > xobni.com ($30M+ in funding) > sanebox.com > liaise.com (funding from Southern Cross?) > clearcontext.com ($500k funding) > nutshellmail.com > GMail Priority Inbox > GMail labs features > unsubscribe.com ($2.1M+ in funding) > Spokeo.com > > This is great because it validates that there is a problem and a need > for a solution. > > > On Jan 10, 3:45 pm, Chris Were <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bart, > > > > Have you seen threadsy.com? It sounds similar. > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Bart Jellema <b...@rtje.net> wrote: > > > Project Inbox ZERO – Who wants to join? > > > > >http://blog.bartjellema.com/2011/01/10/project-inbox-zero-who-wants-t. > .. > > > > > Email used to be fun. Sometimes I got an email, I responded to it and > > > all was good. Now I get 100 emails a day and spent way too much time > > > dealing with the dreaded email. At the same time email clients have > > > hardly changed in the last 20 years. We now have HTML emails > > > (unfortunately) and threading (thanks gmail!). But that’s about it. > > > It’s time to reinvent this tool to bring it into this day and age. > > > This is the goal of Project Inbox ZERO. > > > > > Imagine an inbox that isn’t cluttered with facebook notifications and > > > newsletters, but only has “real” emails and the other messages are > > > converted into what they actually are: notifications and newsletters. > > > Do you ever find yourself scrolling back through emails trying to find > > > someones phone number? What if your email client was smart enough to > > > automatically collect and organize this information from your emails? > > > How nice would it be if you had all relevant information at your > > > fingertips when you received an email from someone: Some photos, their > > > latest twitter updates, what social sites they are on and whether you > > > have connected yet. > > > > > Are reply and forward really the only 2 things we do with emails? What > > > about things like: “Turn into todo item”, “Snooze”, “Enter this > > > invoice into my accounting system”, “Send a canned response”, “This > > > email is way too long, please summerize”, etc, etc > > > > > Personally I believe email clients are still stuck in the 80′s and > > > it’s time to build an email client for this day and age. Let’s make > > > email fun again! I’ve started development and I’m looking for co- > > > founders that are as excited about this as I am to join Project Inbox > > > ZERO. Interested? 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