Email feels so old and slow, especially when compared to the teal-time multiplayer world of Teams and Slack.
It makes sense for transactional emails but conversations and project managing it sucks. But you can’t just add a client or external contact to your chat app.
Idea:
What if an initial email is sent and it operates as expected. You send something along the lines:
Hi Becky, It’s great to meet you. I would love to work with you to get ______ completed by such and such a date. Please find attached a file that is required for this project. Let me know if you have any question. -Anthony
Made up by me
This is where it gets fun
Once the recipient replies or accepts the messages, the thread then morphs into more of a live style conversation. No more signatures repeated over and over or from: to: cc: fields creating noise to pour through or weird formatting problems. It’s becomes a chat with multiple players.
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Participants From: and To:
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Observers CC:
Attachments, links, and relative information could be pulled and listed to a special tab/space and possibly even anchored at the part of the conversation that was relevant
May you could see if someone was on Live for a short period of time.
It could be wild but it would maybe help or maybe things a lot shittier. But at least we’re trying.
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