[peterhartree]

> Fixing the hive-mind is going to be a billion dollar industry

Cal Newport was one of the inspirations for https://inboxwhenready.org. At this point, people have paid me over $100K to make it harder for them to read their email.

I've made some effort to persuade the Gmail and Superhuman teams to take this issue seriously, but to no avail, yet. If anyone here is building an email client or popular Gmail extension, I'm happy to talk about this stuff whenever.

[spoonjim]

You know 17 years ago I used to work at a company that only delivered email at 5 minutes before the hour (9:55, 10:55, etc) and then didn’t deliver email at all between 9pm and sometime in the morning like 4am or 5am. It was amazing. Email from customers were delivered immediately as were internal emails if you marked it high importance (with the “!”).

[fighterpilot]

I'd like a way to get bulk new notifications pushed to me as a small popup in the bottom right of my screen once every 1-2 hours, if there's new emails during that window. That eliminates the need to check the time to see if it's 9:56am yet and I need to check my email.

[peterhartree]

If you're using Gmail, you could get a setup like this by installing "Checker Plus for Gmail".

Enable notifications, then in the "Accounts / Labels" tab set the "Polling interval" to 2 hours.

You can also set a "Do not disturb" schedule, during which no notifications will be delivered.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-g...

[abdullahkhalids]

This is what I want from Thunderbird from the receiver end. The most you can do is set the interval at which to check for new messages. But I want to specify some times at which mail is retrieved.

Of course, having the organization agreement where you know your email won't be delivered till a specified time would be even better. But that's beyond my control.

[spoonjim]

Yea, the great thing about the organization-wide decision was that everybody in the company knew it, so nobody expected quick responses.

[cylde_frog]

Is your extension collecting email addresses? I got an email after trying it out.

[peterhartree]

Yes, it collects your email when you install. This lets me send a couple onboarding messages and determine what plan you are on. There's more info in the (human readable) privacy policy.

When I started this project I wanted the onboarding experience to be as simple as possible, i.e. no annoying sign up stage. I wondered whether this approach would lead to lots of questions like yours: in fact, I think less than 5 people have asked about this since 2015. My sense is that, on balance, most people benefit from the "install = sign-up" flow.

https://inboxwhenready.org/terms-privacy/