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Etacts (YC W10) Builds What I Want

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32 pointsChirag10 comments

I sent an e-mail to the guys at Etacts thanking them for building what I wanted (their main product). It's amazing to me that Gmail hasn't built something like this yet.

Now, what'd I really like to see is Etacts on top of Apple Mail. That probably wouldn't make sense for them, but it's what I want.

I'd love this for Apple Mail too.

Just curious, why do you use Apple Mail instead of Gmail (with offline) or even Mailplane?

Can you really trust a list of "important contacts" that's auto-generated? If I send a single mail to, say, an investor, and they reply to me, I want that unanswered reply to be in the list - even if I've only emailed them once.

Can you force etacts to consider certain emails as important?

They don't use the word "important", they use the words "top contacts", which I think more accurately refers to "frequent contacts." So you would know ahead of time that the investor's email isn't going to be in that list.

I'm not quite sure why I need a tool to remind me to stay in touch with people I'm already in touch with all the time... It's the others I need reminders for!

Hey swombat (super-wombat?) You can set reminders on any of your contacts in our interface (in fact, you can sort by days since contact to find people that you've lost touch with).

It also includes people you used to email a lot but have forgotten about recently.

Howie

This is one reason why developing for the browser is awesome. Even in the case of a browser extension, you can roll out changes so fast.

The only problem I have with Etacts is that it forces you to use Google Chrome. At least Rapportive is integrated in Mailplane as well.

Don't get me wrong, I love Chrome, but once you start doing font management (I'm a designer) on your computer Chrome start screwing things up

We have a Firefox extension and bookmarklets for other browsers....?

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