Email innovated over many other messaging systems by adding structure. To/Cc/Bcc, Subject/Message.
Could it have gone further? Should it have mandated more metadata?
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I like the idea of a personal LLM trained on my emails. "Summarise my upcoming flight and travel to New York" would be useful.
Email is a blob of fairly unstructured text that contains useful information.
On treating email as an infinite scroll rather than a buffer to be emptied: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/case-inbox-infinity/579673/
I've found Inbox Zero to be a really effective approach, but it comes at a cost. The article seems to mix 'must respond' with 'must read' in email tasks.
