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Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

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All I want is to have reminders/todo's in the same list as my emails.

I don't want anything else. Just plain and simple. Would pay $10/month for it. No Slack or Gdocs or whatever integrations.

Do you know anyone working on this?

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Airmail for macOS tries to do that: http://docs.airmailapp.com/airmail-for-mac/services-provided..., https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/

Looks cool, but it doesn't seem that one can add reminders to the same hierarchy as emails. Also, I have an Android.

Yes, reminders in the same hierarchy as emails is the secret sauce of Inbox for me.

Doesn’t look like any alternative has it.

One of my buddies is working on this, you may find it helpful: https://kanbanmail.app/

Thanks for sharing, my feedback (only for my case, so don't take it as absolute):

- Too complicated

- Mobile app is a must for email

- Can't add reminders

Would you trust some fresh company with your e-mail? (remember about the "I forgot my password" feature on accounts associated with that e-mail)

I am the developer of https://www.centask.com it has reminders and todo's with Gmail emails in the same list or hierarchy

Cool. In my case, I would need a better UI and a mobile client (from what I can see from your videos it doesn't have both).

Superhuman https://superhuman.com/

As I understand it you can't add Inbox-style reminders, can you? Also, it's $35/month and it has a lot of feature that I don't need (like collecting peoples Social Media profiles etc.)

You can set reminders for emails to come back to your inbox both at send and separately when reviewing email. It also has read receipts. And the hotkeys and shortcuts are super powerful. Worth the $ if you have to spend a lot of time in email for the efficiency increase alone.

It's not the reminder of emails that the OP is talking about. You can do that in Gmail. It's the freedom of adding any reminder to your inbox, not related to emails, that made a huge difference.

I'm very tempted to create this...

Same here, looking hard for it. I'm even considering writing it myself.

There’s no real money in this, because once you need to build push notifications of new emails, the cost is untenable.

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