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I really want a fast multi-email client that can easily show full contact history in a sidebar. Any options out there? Em Client does this, but it is buggy and/or slow. No such Thunderbird plugins exist, either.

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Yes, Marco does this (disclaimer, I'm the solo founder):

https://marcoapp.io

Contacts populate alongside email threads in search results. If you click on a contact, it will take you to a dedicated contact screen with every thread you've ever had with that contact, as well as every attachment they've ever sent you.

Marco looks really nice! would you consider open sourcing it?

Yes, absolutely. If it would give users more confidence, I'd be happy to.

Not sure if that's intentional, but the entire landing page gets replaced with an error if WebGL is not available:

> Something went wrong!

> Error creating WebGL context.

Not intentional! Thank you for pointing that out. I'll get a fallback in place within the next 24 hours.

Not bad! If I may, the onboarding monthly price is too expensive and I feel you'd have more customers if you show directly a cheap yearly price instead of monthly, my reasoning is that when it comes to emails, people have a bad feeling about anything that doesn't last.

Fair enough, I've recently had similar thoughts about pricing. Will adjust soon. Please (extended to anyone reading this) ping me directly for a few months free.

That looks nice! I do have to say, though, that having the contact history automatically visible in a sidebar is incredibly useful. I would consider adding it as an option to your app. Having it available at a glance, versus having to click through to a different page, makes a huge difference. Em Client also lets me hover over a message in this sidebar to pop-up a small version of it, so I can see just what it said. It's very useful when writing someone to be sure what you've recently (or distantly) said to them. Removing steps to getting this information is vital.

Great feature request. Will put it on the roadmap immediately.

That's great!

Any chance I can pay for a license that includes one year of updates, as opposed to just doing a monthly subscription?

Yes, we have an annual price of $40.

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