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6 Aug 2020, 08:19 PM | #31 | |
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7 Aug 2020, 04:54 AM | #32 |
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Doesn't it depend on the kind of job one applies for? Why should a nurse, or a burger flipper, or a bank clerk be disadvantaged because of a yahoo/Hotmail/hey account?
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7 Aug 2020, 05:05 AM | #33 | |
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7 Aug 2020, 02:04 PM | #36 | |
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Of course, things would be different if it is a creative position or mid-level or senior position in IT. |
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IMveryHO rejecting an application for a non-IT job based on an unfashionable email address is equivalent to rejection because of the wrong postcode/street name.
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$99.00/yr for email? I have three letter domain names like aol.com and usa.com that are free, and I'm sure there are other three letter domain names just as good or better than hey.com that provide email services. It might be tempting to try at half that price or less, but for me $99.00/yr. is way too much. And again, I'm cheap..... |
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27 Sep 2020, 03:42 AM | #41 |
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I decided to give HEY.COM another chance since some of the ideas had appealed to me before, despite my other reservations/issues. And my second trial ended up being much more positive than the first time around. I'm still not signed up and paid yet officially, but I will go for it when they release custom domains (hopefully soon, supposedly by the end of the year).
In particular, what I finally realized was more of a personal epiphany about my own email usage patterns, and how I've actually been stressing myself out over the years by my approach. I realized my own current email workflow had evolved into an inefficient, distracting, and often stress-inducing headache, filled with workarounds and duct-tape adaptations, kind of a Frankensteinian mess... In other words, my current approach is *terrible*, and the more I thought about it, actually kind of unhealthy! I didn't know that until after my second HEY.COM trial. Not that HEY.COM is the perfect answer to what I discovered about my own existing process. But I began to look at it not so much as an email provider per se, but more of a way to reassess how I work, and as a collection of ideas that are pretty well integrated, that I could apply to how I do things and process messages/information much better than I did before. So I'm planning on signing up in the coming months once they release their custom domain option, and I'll take it slowly. I want to see how it goes just for one domain that I often use for customer support for clients. I don't expect to move tons of email over -- I use several other providers for different purposes/personal/business, etc... But I now want to run a longer experiment and see how HEY evolves, and how my own approach to email might evolve along with it. So it's worth the $99 to me at least for one year, just as a way to help me rethink how I work. HEY is definitely still figuring itself out, and it's still a 1.0 release, with all that "1.0" means, so it has a long way to go. But assuming they continue to refine some of the rough points that bug me, I think they're on to something good for those who feel like they might benefit from this approach. Again, I'm not saying it's the end-all-be-all answer. But the way they've done it has already made me rethink what I'm currently doing, which is a good thing. And BTW they seem eager to listen to customers and improve -- I've already communicated with support several times and they were outstanding so far. Anyway, thought I'd post that my opinion has changed, and they have won over a new customer, at least for a one year-long experiment. |
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27 Sep 2020, 04:49 AM | #43 | |
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However, the second time through, my opinion really started changing after I gave it a good solid trial... I actually didn't feel locked in to use "their way" as much as I thought I would, but rather it dawned on me that I had become lost over the years, and sort of locked in to my own unhealthy way I had been dealing with email up to this point. It was a strange epiphany to have over something I had been doing for so many years. YMMV of course and it may have no appeal to many people. Definitely a niche email service. And don't get me wrong, there are things about it that need refinement, and it needs a few more key features that I'd like to see that many of us take for granted these days, and it really is a very "opinionated" approach to email that some people will simply not like at all. However, in my case, I started seeing how the concepts would actually save me time, reduce distraction, help me focus, help reorganize how I process email, help me better manage and combine and annotate conversations, track attachments much better, think of email in terms of people as opposed to threads, reduce messy workarounds I've been doing for years, reframe how I consume lower-priority email newsletters/subscriptions (like with blogs, serial content), etc., etc. And while HEY does tend to "escort" you into their world the way they see it, it is still flexible. Not nearly as flexible as something like FastMail though, of course... FastMail can be very powerful and very tweakable, and if someone values far more granular control, then HEY will be a hard sell. In fact, I fell into this category. But with more experimentation on real-world conversations with real people, in some ways I found HEY to be more flexible and powerful than I initially thought. But not in a granular way... in a "workflowy way." It's not just one feature that does this though... it's really a combination of features that help workflows and organizing threads/content more naturally/organically... at least more like the way my own desk is organized. Hard to explain how all these little features actually combine to help me rethink my process... but that's what happened with me. So they are worth a 1-year extended "trial" on one of my domains, and I'll be happy to pay the $99 to see how it goes. Worst case, I can take some of these ideas and implement some version of them right in FastMail, for example, just by rethinking how I use filters, labels, folders, etc.... One can basically implement many of these workflow ideas without ever using HEY. But it's the way they combine features and structure the service to influence the user to rethink how they use email that makes it potentially special, and worth it for me to spend more time with it. But again, if someone wants/needs very specific granular control, then HEY is not the right service for them, and likely never will be. |
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27 Sep 2020, 06:16 AM | #44 |
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I just saw this on Fastmail's website -- https://fastmail.blog/2020/07/24/email-workflow/
So about one month after HEY.COM officially launched, Fastmail posted about "rethinking" email with "workflow" as the central idea of their post, and "how to find more focus, spare your inbox from non-essential emails, decide who can email you, quiet your notifications..." They even mention some of the key bullet points from HEY like proxy tracking pixels, etc... almost as if this page is a response covering many of the marketing points of HEY.COM, but written in such a way that showcases what Fastmail has already been able to do. Interesting. All the tips they recommend in the blog post are useful or worth considering, of course, but it reminds me that in the Venn diagram of target markets, there are a bunch of potential customers that overlap between Fastmail and HEY.COM, and it appears that Fastmail is quite conscious of this. I wouldn't be surprised if they continue to develop some more "workflowy" features like their relatively recent labels, VIP notifications, snoozing, etc., and they tweak their main marketing copy on their website to reflect a more workflow-centric approach, given the trends like with HEY, OnMail, Superhuman, etc. Makes me wonder if there is also a market rivalry developing between Fastmail and HEY. I also think this will be really good for Fastmail users going forward, and keep pressure on HEY to give users more granular control and flexibility. HEY is clearly aware of Fastmail, judging by the interviews and social media responses of HEY. It will be fun to see where they both go next. |
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