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by 8organicbits 526 days ago
Magic links breaking my flow is my top issue as well. My inbox is distracting: don't send me there. One affordance I've seen was a site that detected I was using gmail and crafted a link like https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/example.com, which brought me directly to the email I needed, while hiding everything else. I think it did a MX lookup to guess my provider.

I wish magic links would go away, but if they need to stay, that approach was the least terrible.

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Good point! I've seen this search link setup before and it was... somewhat palatable. Still more bad than good but at least better UX.