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“Reply Later” queue
One of the neat ideas in HEY is a “Reply Later” feature paired with a “Focus and Reply” flow. Basically, you can quickly mark an email as one you'd like to reply to, and it gets set aside into a little pinned UI. Then when you're in the writing mood, you can choose to “Focus and Reply” to each email. They get queued up in a sort of feed with your reply next to them. Once you finish one, you move onto the next.
It's kind of an opinionated workflow, but matches how I personally use my mail: a reading context, and then a replying context. I'd be interested in implementing something in Mail.
To keep it cross-platform friendly and not just dependent on a local data store, we could potentially use labels/folders to mark the emails that need to be replied to under the hood.
Here is more info about the HEY features:
- https://hey.com/features/reply-later/
- https://hey.com/features/reply-mode/
I really like your suggested feature. And would love to see more like this in Mail.
I personally appreciate the rethinking of email from HEY and during the last days i thought of suggesting this in here. Glad to see you were already thinking that direction about a year ago.
Would also it be possible to label Mails from specific senders to appear in an "Important box" --> and thereby migrate all inboxes into this one "imbox" and move the rest to other places like the "Paper-trail"?
- https://hey.com/features/multi-account/
- https://hey.com/features/paper-trail/
What needs do be done the head into this direction?
