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by jagraff 384 days ago
I think there is perhaps a different conclusion that I come to - email is not the right tool for long discussions with multiple points of disagreement, because it is, generally, a linear medium, which makes it difficult to maintain different threads without careful formatting by every author in the email chain.

I am not sure if there exists a good tool for threaded discussions with multiple different focus areas - something like git but for conversations?

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> email is not the right tool for long discussions with multiple points of disagreement

It’s still better than a teams call.

Almost anything is better than any Teams thing.
I've written one, and people who use it, love it. People who look at it from the outside, hate it, hate on it, say hateful things about it, and generally make it clear that it should be set fire to, then buried.

But I and colleagues use it regularly, and it absolutely hits the spot for non-linear discussions that are intended to find conclusions.