[jlbnjmn]

I think people do consider the money value of time?

If you're an employee, it's irrelevant.

If you're self employed, the mental overhead and switching costs are high.

And if you are the person for which those things are true, do you believe the marketing?

Wouldn't 5 minutes memorizing keyboard shortcuts be a better use of time, at $0/monthly cost?

I would argue that the area in which people fail to consider the value of time is actually the time cost of implementing new processes, software or otherwise.

There are hundreds of thousands of free courses and tutorials that could each save someone a little here and a little there, why doesn't everyone spend all day learning?

It's an interesting question, really.

I lean towards pick the 2-3 core activities and optimize for time and output with those tools. For everything else, optimize for low mental overhead.

[cercatrova]

Maybe the switching costs are high, or maybe not. Superhuman is designed such that every single interaction can be done on the keyboard, I'm not sure of another email client that has that level of control, so I'm not sure as to your point about memorizing keyboard shortcuts.

It's like an email version of vim (or emacs if you prefer), but more GUI-based and for non-technical people. Would you pay for vim, is I think the real question, given that one is an active vim user already. Since it saves me so much time and switching cost from keyboard to mouse, I would pay for it. That it is currently free and open source is nice, too, but I think some programmers would definitely pay if it weren't.

[jlbnjmn]

I've saved hundreds of hours by ignoring email and I highly recommend that option as well.

By keyboard shortcuts I'm referring to any software that one uses frequently, whether text editor, email, video editing, analytics, or something else.

If someone is not using the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, why not just start there? No migration necessary.

[graeme]

I made the original post you’re replying to, and I agree. Web gmail + shortcuts is actually a great service. I think most people who are fairly satisfied with their email and just want to improve some would be best served starting there.

Personally I found superhuman just better enough that it’s worth it, but that’s because I wasn’t very good at managing email in a web interface, and I like the command line approach in Superhuman.

[jlbnjmn]

Interesting, if I give email another look I'll check it out.

Does it have a way to auto unsubscribe from and delete promotional content and other non essential stuff?

[graeme]

It puts them into other, and it has a faster unsubscribe interface, though it doesn’t already work. When you delete a message you can trash or mark done all from the same sender, so that is nice.

For that use case you might look into Sanebox. It runs on servers and I think has a good reputation for that kind of filtering.

Personally I haven’t had too much issue with promotional email though, so I would take my comments here with a grain of salt. I can’t really speak to it.

The other folder filtering is decent, but I imagine gmail is also good at that with promotions.

[cercatrova]

Sure, that works for many people, I am not disagreeing. I'm just saying why shouldn't people pay for more specialized tools? Sometimes Gmail and keyboard shortcuts aren't enough.