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Comment by shardling | Hacker News Reader

Could... someone tell me what Mailbox is? (i.e. what makes it special.) Their website is weirdly devoid of an explanation.

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It's a mail app that treats inbox triage like shoving all your physical messes in time-based closets instead of actually dealing with the mess (like Boomerang). But it has a few very clever swipe-based interactions that are an improvement upon every mail app around, and those alone are worthy of all the attention the app's received. Just like PTR, others can implement these interactions and the app won't be novel for much longer. But for now, it's the only one doing it.

Still, the whole thing smacks of Jobs-era Apple-like overabundant zeal.

It's a mailbox that attaches mail organization to gestures rather than buttons. Big whoop.

Small and incremental improvements over a current iteration can kick a product from "meh" to "must have". Remember the iPod?

You solve one minor annoyance in an existing product and you might just have the next Big Thing® on your hands.

At first I thought it was going to be a stupid app. But it's now my main email client. I'm even liking it more than my desktop app. One of the things that really sold me was the snooze options. I can quickly decide how to deal with specific emails: "later" (2hrs), this afternoon, this evening, tomorrow, next week, some day, OR my favorite - a specific time and date. Which has completely halted the use of my calendar. I'll set a time and date for an email to remind me of a meeting or appointment I have and when it arrives I have all the context about that event. Brilliant.

It's a mail app with todo list/triage features. You can easily reorder items, set reminders for tomorrow/next week, etc.

Intro/promo vid: http://vimeo.com/54553882

For those who are interested in alternatives, I recommend the TaskBox app. It's sort of a hybrid between a todo list and an inbox.

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