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Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org)
Being one of the oldest forms of electronic messaging, users have come up with all sorts of different approaches to managing emails. Some people follow the "Inbox Zero" method of filing and deleting emails religiously, while others embrace the "Inbox Infinity" method of letting email messages pile up, replying to what they can and ignoring the rest. Taylor Lorenz, a staff writer at The Atlantic, suggests users embrace the latter for 2019. Lulu Garcia-Nevarro writes via NPR: In a recent piece in The Atlantic, tech writer Taylor Lorenz argues, in 2019, you should lose the zero and embrace the Zen. Let all those emails flooding your inbox wash over you. Respond to what you can, and ignore the rest. Key to inbox infinity -- telling close contacts and family that your email replies might be slow in coming -- if at all -- as well as alternative ways to reach you. It's that easy. Or maybe not, depending on how email-dependent your boss, your colleagues and your best friend, your mom and your husband are. As for me, I've apparently been embracing inbox infinity for years without knowing it. And let me tell you, it feels great. Don't expect a reply anytime soon. How do you manage your inbox? Would you say you follow one of these two principles, or do you have an in-between method that works for you?
I've jumped on the buzzword bandwagon and let AI manage it for me.
I like to be organized, but when it's for a work thing you never know when you will need to cover your ass so 1 easily searchable inbox has a lot more utility than good organization or zero clutter and potentially losing requisite emails.
If it is important they will call me anyway.
Plus ever since SSDs outlook is very good at searching, so a lot of search folders, if it doesn't match one, it stays unread. The inbox is the trash
Personal/Financial/warrantee indo : archive and store in mbox format offline.
Work: store until project completion, archive any promises of favors/extra cash incentives, keep anything else documented with project documentation.
Everything else, terminate with extreme prejudice.
I took an actual course on this when working for a rich company in the internet boom era. There was an emphasis on customizing the MS Outlook home page six ways from Sunday.
It worked pretty well, but, just like with the $100 Franklin-Covey MS Outlook add-on I bought in the late 1990s, I stopped using it after only a few months.
Kriston
If I ignore the emails long enough, I feel that they're no longer important and I can just "archive" them for searching later.
Automatically move emails to the appropriate inbox from the main inbox.
Computors is good at sorting - let them do it for you.
Just saying it like it are.
I let it fill up, I check daily, reply if I need to, but never delete anything, even spam. I've used the same address for 10 years now. I see little purpose in organizing.
Spam-filled mailbox mismanages YOU!
Inbox is my to do list. If it is there I need to do something if I delete it I do not.
I have 2 domain names:
* Private one that my family uses and know that they can get a near instantaneous response, and
* Public one that I use for ALL business related emails. I also have an email alias for _each_ company so I can which fucker sells me out if they do.
If my name was John Smith:
john.amazon@smith.com
john.bank@smith.com
john.crapco@smith.com
john.groupon@smith.com
john.monoprice@smith.com
john.shadyco@smith.com
john.woot@smith.com
and I start getting emails from john.shadyco discussing crap co products/services then I know which of these assholes sold me out.
I have heaps of filters in place and I do unsubscribe a lot. It's not zero, but 4-7 items actionable items, moved to sub-folder once actioned upon.
I'm not very well organised, so it won't come as a surprise that I embraced the "Inbox Infinity" right from the start. Every year or so, I "archive" stuff. Meaning: everything older than, say, a year, will go to a folder in my archive for that year. In a couple of months I'll create the folder 2018 and move everything of 2018 from both Inbox and Sent to it, and I'm done. Very easy to maintain, only takes a few minutes work every year. Very Zen indeed. Sure, at least 95% of all that "archive" is clutter, but who cares? I host my own e-mail and diskspace is cheap.
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I really need to set up some automatic filters again so that I don't have an ever-growing Inbox, so that any email in my inbox is something I want / need to act on. That worked pretty well for for a number of years.
My current company doesn't use email much for important things, instead using it for a lot of automatic notifications and mailing lists I don't care about. I should filter that stuff.
Rather than that of a twerpy millennial that writes about Instagram for a living. Some of us have *real* jobs.
Keep it all. Anything older than a month or so gets moved to archive storage. Default view is sorted by date and then unread. I read it, deal with it, and ignore or read it, flag it as unread and deal with it later. Rarely anything more than 24 hours old. Some notifications, etc. I get I typically just select and file, unless it is one I am looking out for in particular (student questions from course management system, open issue on my work code, etc)
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
I've been using Active Inbox for three years with good success. It's unfortunate that it only works with GMail, but it's still a great tool.
I read my email, and then I answer my email.
Email is lame. It's a mobile world and that means text messages.
I don't read any emails, they pile up unread. I don't give anyone I know an email address.
Email is lame. Just like postal service mail. If I could, I would have neither.
Inbox Infinity - a philosophy I can get behind! ...with emphasis on the “get behind” part.
Finally I don’t have to feel bad about the 2000 messages I’ve let get stacked up in my inbox!
#DeleteChrome
People have been ignoring emails (and letters, and voicemails, and texts) for years. I "like" how someone is claiming credit for something that people do naturally. Lol
My primary email address and mailbox is maintained daily, deleting all spam and junk. At the end of every month, all large attachments are saved (if valuable) and otherwise deleted. Then the mailbox for that month is archived and a new mailbox for the new month starts with zero. Archived mailboxes are accessible via the IMAP server.
Each month amounts to about 30MB of archived emails. I have emails dating back to the early 1980's. All searchable with grep or imap.
All incoming emails to this primary email address are also copied to another mailbox. This other mailbox is the one that my cell phone accesses. This mailbox is aged out at about 10 days (i.e. nothing is older than 10 days). So the cell phone doesn't have to keep infinity emails and its set to delete emails after about 7-10 days also.
I have multiple other email addresses, on gmail, hotmail/outlook, and yahoo. I used to try to maintain these also, but now I just let them do the infinite thing... Only one of these addresses keeps really important stuff. Most are use for non-critical Internet nonsense and handles for various Internet accounts.
If you give your e-mail address to someone but you don't respond or even read your e-mails you are an asshole, full stop. If you get too much "spam" then you should use a separate e-mail address for your Bed Bath & Beyond coupons. It is just fucking rude to ignore people.
Most white-collar people at work, their job basically revolves around e-mail. You can set up filters so you don't have to read the salespeople patting each other on the back for closing a deal, but you need to actually handle all of your e-mail. Why would you give your actual friends and family less respect than "Bill from accounting"?
If you're so popular that your personal mail is overwhelming, and you're not a celebrity, I don't know what to tell you.
Things may have changed since I learned how all this crap worked 15-odd years ago, but here's what I was told:
Every time you connect to the IMAP server, it has to synchronize the Inbox with your client. It does this by reading and comparing headers for all the messages in the Inbox. The more messages, the longer this ties up your client and the server.
Better to just shove everything into one big "Miscellaneous" folder than to leave it in the Inbox!
Delete that shit you would ignore, immediately. It will never bother you again. Worried it might be important later or something? Bah, it will get less important with each passing day.
I leave all relevant email in the inbox forever. Irrelevant stuff gets trashed with a swipe. Search provides my "folders" for me on the rare occasion that I need to access anything not immediately visible at the top of the inbox. In general, anymore organization, even the time to set up automatic filtering to folders, would cost me more time to manage than it would save me in my lifetime.
Two email addresses -- the real one and a stunt double that attracts all the mail order brides and scammers/spammers.
A cell phone is my other voice messaging system. Also good for texts.
At the doctor's office: ' Do you have a cell phone?'
Yes- but I don't answer it; it takes messages.
To everybody, he's driving and will return my message (or text)
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
The perfect spamming software lol, :)
http://www.senuke.com/pro/
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I don't understand how people get so much email. I get maybe 5, maximum 10 private emails per day. At work (or rather at my client because I'm a subcontractor), it's different. One clients did communication at our Scrum stand-up meeting. If I was in the CC for email, I archived it immediately (skipping my inbox). My current client uses Slack, but again, not more than maybe 5 messages per day.
As a colleague said, my job is software development, not email.
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Yeah I do get to spend a lot of time here.
It's nice not having to "work" long hours.
Instead, the hours I put in are studying. Just before seeing your post, I was taking a practice test for my CISSP. That'll both bump my pay up another $15K/year and make it even easier for me to get jobs in laid-back companies where people aren't over-worked.
If a human is sending something to me, or my team, it lands in my inbox and I read it. Anything from a bit goes into that bots folder. So I read hundreds of messages a day. It keeps me on top of things. Something I hate the most is talking to someone about a thred and they ask "what folder is it in?" Your Inbox, it should be in your inbox.
If it's worth saving, it's worth filtering into a folder.
Generic ads for companies I do business with have an Ads folder that is emptied periodically. Bill related emails go into a bill folder. That also gets emptied periodically.
People I actually care if I get an email from have a filter for them.
Gmail takes care of spam pretty well on its own.
The inbox just gradually grows as things go into it that never get filtered into something else.
If it's not in a folder, it's probably not that important and if space ever becomes an issue I can do more a thorough clearing out.
People care way too much about the inbox. Labels are where your white listed items go. The inbox is just a grey area that will accumulate over time but can be cleared out if needed.
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No emails in my inbox, have folders @respond for ones I need to respond to that I can't immediately, @reference for anything I might thing might be useful later, @payment, then several other folders for filtering work stuff I need to keep or auto filter clients to for response later
Emails that come in are dealt with immediately, responded to immediately and moved to @reference if I need to keep or deleted, read immediately if it's a mailing list or deleted if I don't have time (if I don't have time now, I probably will never have the time), @payment for purchases.
By keeping my inbox empty, I can deal with email extremely quickly and I keep my time wastage down, I tend to deal with emails once in the morning, and then once in the evening, keeps the rest of the day free to get on with work.
I've been using 3rd party tools and extensions like AntEater (www.anteateranalytics.com) to help me with the ever increasing flow of data to weed out the noise and find the top contacts and topics in my Inbox.
I use FILTERS to drop incoming mail into designated folders. All incoming email must be in my address book else it goes to TRASH. Don't need AI spam filter anymore. My email went from 200/day down to about 20.
It's the only protocol I'll trust my inbox with. It was written by Jesus her black self. It's worth all the EvanCoins in all the kingdoms.
Data is cheap... ad driven data is free (at the cost of privacy). Why should I ever delete an email? I reply to emails that merit a response. The rest might be spam or random notifications. Ultimately, I never delete emails because I like having a record of them in a convenient, searchable format.
Never use a mailbox that is permanently connected to YOU; your ISP, your work or whatever. OK, you probably have to use your work or school account sometimes- keep it to a minimum.
Use gmail, hotmail, any of the free services. Have one for family, one for friends, one for work, and at lest two for questionable email (people or businesses you may not want to continue with).
The key is that they are all disposable, unlike the one your ISP offers. You can dump any of them and open another if they become too spammy. Simply inform your favored correspondents first using the names associated with that mailbox. They will understand if they've ever received spam.
This assumes that you are using an email program that can manage many accounts in one place. If you've been going to a website with your browser to get your email, you need to reconsider.
...omphaloskepsis often...
>"Respond to what you can, and ignore the rest. Key to inbox infinity -- telling close contacts and family that your email replies might be slow in coming -- if at all -- as well as alternative ways to reach you"
That is just being an asshole. And what "alternative ways" are more efficient and less annoying? Being interrupted constantly with phone calls or texts? Writing a letter?
Delete as soon as done.. trust me. Once I know it is gone I will not search for it.. and anyway it was an email ;-)
Ctrl-A, Delete.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I have my own domain.
For websites and companies, I use e.g. slashdot.org@example.com. I will know if the email is leaked or sold pretty fast. When I get spam, it is eother leaked or sold.
I then have several others, e.g hotel2019@example.com for all travel related things.
I use fetchmail to get tge mail and procmail to put it in different mailboxes, like travel, mailinglist, friends, ....
I believe you can do the same with gmail by doing email+whatever@....
Not sure, as I do not use gmail.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I have various filters in place to put emails into various folders automatically for me. Most of these folders contain emails that I can ignore (some go directly to the Bin, some are monitoring alert emails, some are status updates on deployment pipelines, some are incidents that my team, but not me, need to work on, etc). I would generally cast a quick eye over these, and when happy I'll just delete everything in the folder.
The rest stay in my InBox.
When I have new emails in there, I read them. If this is something I can reply to now, I reply now. If it's something I can ignore, I just close it and leave it there. If it's something I need to do by can't do now, I close it and mark it as unread so that I'll go back to it at some point.
This means that I generally have a small number of unread emails, listing this that I need to get back to.
Simple process that has worked very well for me for the last 20 years or so.
I employ a similar process in Google Inbox where I'll 'check off' emails that I'm done with. I can't mark emails as 'unread', but if I haven't checked if off then it's something I want to get back to at some point. Unfortunately checking off the email doesn't appear to do much on the GMail side, so when Google shutdown InBox it'll complete mess up my system. So I need to do something about this on the Gmail side before they do that. (rather miffed at Google about this, but that's Google for you...)
Most of the time I don't get any emails. I like it that way. Most people by far are top-posting drooling morons.
The emails I do get don't get to stay in my inbox after having been dealt with. Everything, that's received AND sent, for threading, gets either sorted in a topical box or stuffed wholesale in the "other" box.
"You know, like with a cloth." - Hillary Clinton
"Inbox Infinity". Have been practicing this for years. If I don't answer and it's really important, they'll re-email. Or call. Or text. Or send a letter, or the police.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
The sorting does help, though the spam filtering is increasingly laughable.
What I really want is a variation of future delivery. I want to be able to set up replies for the future with reminders as the deadline approaches. The AI aspect would be learning to recognize my priorities to help with recommended deadlines and more timely reminders: "You drafted this reply to Nancy two days ago. Want to check it again or just let it go out tomorrow." In other words I generally want to slow down and control the tempo with priority to the stuff that actually needs it.
It's ekronomics again, which reminds me that time is up, but I bid you ADSAuPR, atAJG.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I maintain 3 inboxes and manage them differently.
1. Private - Inbox Zero
2. Wildcard private email, allowing me to filter into sub-folders (or delete automatically if too much spam) based on destination email - Inbox Infinity, check over it once or twice a day
3. Work email - major rules filtering into a number of sub-folders. Main inbox zero, all sub-folders get different amount of attention (from hourly to weekly attention). I should add that my employer IT already does a good job at filtering out spam from the outside world.
Occasionally I setup a rule to forward a wildcard private to main inbox for a duration of my dealings with whoever I gave the email to, then I move it back to the once-a-day check folder.
For my work account I let the email pile up in the inbox, ie no sorting outside of some filters to pull out journal TOCs and persistent spam, but I make sure I have no unread emails. I use thunderbird which has a good enough (not great) search capability that I don't see the benefit of going through the work to manually sort the email.
In my personal account I just let it pile up and look out for emails from folks I care about. Like others I also have a junk.lastname@gmail.com account that I use when webpages ask for my email to give me "special offers from trusted partners".
Slightly off topic by what do folks think of gmail's spam filter? I'm impressed by how well mine works, but my wife's is notorious for filtering emails that she wants...
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If that's the way you want to be - unreliable - go for it. You probably also don't pay your bills on time, you miss appointments, and you generally live - let's be polite here - a "happy go lucky" life. Some people do.
OTOH, if you are a generally reliable person, then you just have to add your inbox to the other activities you deal with in daily life. That means sorting through every message, binning the crap, and answering the rest in a timely fashion. The same way you (hopefully!) handle your physical mail, only email is a lot easier.
If you get a lot of mail, you may want to use some tools. Automatically filter messages into categories, for example, or use different email addresses for different purposes. Tools can help, the same way you may use folders to sort your physical papers. Which doesn't change the basic fact that you need to answer your mail, because that's what responsible adults do.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I think it was origianlly called 'Information Overload'...
delete, delete, delete, delete.... Wait, rule for..... delete
I just talk to people directly and ask to be reached directly and then deal with things in real time. I get emails as appointment reminders, receipts, if a file needs to be sent to me, but otherwise I am just contacted directly by voice or text.
Twinstiq, game news
...sounds good.
If you actually have the discipline to actually do it.
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I tag all incoming emails with one of a hundred or so tags I've made. I'll sort by tag as needed as the memory piles up, and delete by attachment size if needed.
I use "mark all as read" when I'm sure nothing important is there, but newer delete anything - and it saved me trouble more than once
Work email:
Skim all email on arrival. If it's spam, delete it. If it's a brief update, just read it. If it's something I'll need to work on later, "Mark as unread". While I'm in the office, I often have a tab open that lists the unread emails, so I can easily see what I need to process later. I don't really sort the email into folders, just search when I need to find something (usually I recall the author and some keywords when needed).
Personal email:
I try to keep the inbox empty, and sort emails into folders based on who they're from (digital receipts in one folder, email from family in another, email related to work in another, flight tickets in another, and so on.) If some person or company often sends emails of the same kind, I setup a filter to automatically sort such emails into the correct folders. When I'm busy, some emails remain unsorted, so I usually have a couple of days per year when I clean up the inbox again.
At work, they've decided constant monitoring is the solution to perpetually broken applications (needful doers), so I have something like 300 Outlook rules. It would be more if I didn't have several of them running VBA scripts. There's just so much noise...ServiceHow sends something like 25 e-mails every time a server reboots.
At home, I wish I had Outlook. None of these webmail clients seems to have rules functionality. So it's more like I check often but have to just manually drag everything to folders once every month or two. That structure has evolved over time...what happened was that sites steadily increased how much mail they sent out. They used to send newsletters quarterly or monthly or during specific sales. Then it was weekly, daily, and I swear some are every other hour now. I've been unsubscribing from stuff I'd like to keep tabs on but have been drowning in noise from. Stores are bad but job boards are worse. All of the needful doers in recruiting spam the hell out of me with dump trucks full of fake jobs. Can't they just fall down a well and stop stealing oxygen?
Pretty much everything on my personal account is deleted. Rarely anything worth keeping that gets sent there.
Just about everything sent to my work mail is ruled into an archive never to be seen. The rest get read breifly and then sent to the same archive. I will keep the important stuff in a inbox sub folder for later. Keep the yearly archive around til like March.
I had approximately 55GB come into my work account last year. The biggest chuck of my storage is this. Similar amounts the two before it. That is way past any free storage amount.
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For home addresses I use my inbox as a ToDo list, archiving after they're done or appropriately ignored. For work, I do the same only when I'm done I make sure to archive them to the network drive that they're always sending me nagging emails about the network drives running out of storage space.
For my indie game studio I have a different e-mail for every vendor I go through:
gameartwebsite@mystudio.com
sfxwebsite@mystudio.com
bankwebsite@mystudio.com
slackchat@mystudio.com
microsoft@mystudio.com
google@mystudio.com
Works out nicely.
Forward all addresses to one master address. Stuff that needs attention gets marked as unread. Search "is:unread" to see what needs attention. Delete nothing, ever. Drives my manager crazy to see my 85k inbox but works for me.
Put simply, I don't. Email is not important to me, nor is it what I use to organize my life. I refuse to let email consume one more second of my time than it absolutely has to.
So, after I read an email, if it does not require my response, I just delete it. If it does require a response, I have whatever conversation needs to be had, and when it is over, I delete the thread.
I'm using Outlook for work emails. I have everything in these 2 folders: Inbox and Sent. If I need to find something, I can always re-sort and/or find.
Anything older than 1 month I archive outside the Exchange Server.
I have my emails back to 2002. I collect various accounts using fetchmail to my local machine. I read them all, delete as necessary. I save them off into folders by month in the format YYYY-MM so they naturally sort. I also archive my sent mail in the same way.
I have 228 in my inbox now, and that is all of Dec and Jan (so far). I archive manually when I feel the need.
If I need to find something, I can just use grep to locate the correct archive, and then either read it in vi or via alpine.
This has worked for me for many years, and only takes up a few GB of space. I have a cron job to zip and archive it all nightly, and move them off to another server. I use a similar archiving system at work, where I store them off in folders for each year-month. It's outlook, so it's slower and I have less control over it.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I use yearly folders for each email account and that's it. It's still the most hassle-free way I've found. Here's a full writeup I did back in 2011: https://tcrbang.com/?IMA
Looking at my GMail account. Most of my Inbox e-mails (21496 entries and counting) are marked as "Important according to Google Magic", including but not limited to crappy newsletters [...]
1. Optional: filter your newsletters to an "Newsletter" folder.
2. Read the newsletters.
3. When done,
3a. if there's nothing important in them, delete them
3b. if there is, move them to "Received"
If you find you're not reading the newsletter: unsubscribe.
In summary: if you want to have a smaller INBOX... move stuff out of the INBOX.
Every new year, I create a new subfolder, and move stuff in there. So earlier this month I created "2018/" and with-in that I created "2018/Received" and "2018/Sent", and moved all the messages from the previous year into them.
I can't ignore emails, and slow responses usually result in complaints or getting yelled at. In my position I typically interact with Directors, VPs, etc and I'm a normal worker bee. As such I'm low man on the totem pole and the expected response to "jump" is "how high?". Ignoring emails or being slow responding doesn't end well.
Does this poll seem to pop up almost annually? And does it really matter? Managing the inbox aggressively takes too much time to be worth it, when the inevitable Outlook crash will fix it for me at some point.
Good email software, filters that automatically sort 90% of incoming messages into folders (family, work, friends, marketing, etc), auto-mark-as-read most of the spam. What's left in the Inbox serves as a priority to-do list, next in line are unread messages in remaining folders. Nothing gets deleted, only marked as read, since storage is cheap. Last 11 years' worth of emails ~30G. All attachments always accessible. Containers easily backupable and convertible to, say, mbox or txt. Powerful internal search and grep for this once in a decade needle in a haystack scenario. Flags, parking, tags and colours for messages if really needed.
The Bat! is about the only thing that keeps me on Windows.
Every end has half a stick.
I still use pine in an 80x24. It processes the âDâ(TM) key as fast as my finger can tap. No fancy modern GUI will match the reflexes I spent my entire childhood training on videogames. But xterm can!
Why not both?
I "file" (label) lots of stuff - and my rules label far more than I manually do.
But I also just let other stuff sit in my Inbox. Not hurting anybody other than taking up a smidgen of space. Can find it via search. Maybe someday if I'm sick or super bored I'll file or delete all 30,000+ ...
158,000+ unread messages since 2010 And counting. That's just my main inbox. Logwatch for various severs adds another 200,000+ unread messages (although I do grep through those).
One for important email from trusted sources - I actively monitor this one and it's tied to my phone w/ notifications.
One for average email from untrusted sources - I monitor this one as needed (not often); tied to phone but w/o notifications.
One throwaway email for everything else - I never visit this one... dont even remember the password anymore.
If you use GMail, the search is so good you can find anything from 10 years ago in a couple of seconds.
Even Outlook's search is good enough to find most emails quickly (though not nearly as good as GMail).
I just have two kinds of email: Those that are in my inbox still need some attention. Those that don't, I archive. That's it. It's worked for years, never regretted losing all that time trying to file emails in folders that would mystify me later.
The problem I have with inbox infinity is filtering out the stuff that might be important at a later day. Sure, I can triage between the 50 emails i get in daily and decide which one is important for me and which one isn't. But lets say i made a mistake and missed the wrong email, how do I find it easily and react to it at one point?
1. For instance, John sends my coworker a client contract and puts me into CC.
2. I think - my coworker has this covered, I don't need to deal with this.
3. A week later something goes wrong (and we all know that something always goes wrong) and I have to check all my conversations with John to see what was promised to be delivered and if the contract has all the details
4. At this point I have to go through the unread emails, the ones i read and find the contract to get this under my control.
5. This is taking way too much time for me.
I think the solution for the big amount of emails is in the way how the team works there. Sending useless emails that should have been chats or sending contracts all over different apps and stuff like that is really not productive. We've tried a couple of platforms that try to solve this problem by making email collaborative (my team can chat around an email...reduces the amount of forwards and CC's or BCC's). I've been using Spark for my email client for more then a year now and I love it, but my team couldn't adopt it - their 'team' version is not intuitive. We also tested out Missive, but their email integration isn't that good...we're currently trying out Loop Email and works great (2 weeks). The only problem is they don't have an android app yet.