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akshaynathan

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akshaynathan··on Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
yeah, thats exactly the goal! In fact we already have git/slack notifications right now. It would be awesome if you could try it out and let us know what you think.
akshaynathan··on Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
Thanks, we'll reach out as we spec out bundling, looking forward to hearing your feedback.
akshaynathan··on Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
Thanks! We have an iOS app coming up. If you sign up or message me your email, we can notify you when it's done.
akshaynathan··on Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
We already have snoozing for items that come into Monolist, and bundling is on our radar as well.

We're working on a Gmail integration right now so we'll pull in any emails you actually read automatically, and let you label/organize/snooze/bundle/reply all without leaving the feed.

akshaynathan··on Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features
That's fair (cofounder here).

Our eventual goal is to replace Gmail for any work/transactional emails. We're taking the approach of doing that one integration at a time, and providing a richer experience.

We do think that there's a world in which both of them are useful though. The problem as we see it right now with Gmail is you may receive a notification about a pull request or whatever, but you can't do anything with it and the data gets stale. Monolist will keep it in sync, and let you approve/merge/comment on it inline so you don't have to switch between 10 apps.

akshaynathan··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
Sad to see this here, but if anyone is interested in a new tool with some of the features of Inbox (snoozing, pinning and more to come), we're building Monolist (https://monolist.co).

Monolist integrates directly into the tools you use and surfaces things that you can act on inline in the app (missed Slack mentions, Asana tasks, Calendar invites etc.). We're actually working on a GMail integration right now and would love to hear from the community what kinds of Inbox features we could replicate successfully.