Shortwave, a Startup By Former Google Employees, Wants To Bring Back Google Inbox

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company's next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it's no surprise Google shut it down in 2019. Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience -- with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too.

As Lee told me, the team took two important inspirations from Inbox. 'One is the idea that you should work with your email in groups,' he said, referring to Inbox's ability to bundle emails by topic. 'As the volume of email grows in your inbox, it becomes impractical just to page through every single email. Even if you have all the keyboard shortcuts and your app is super optimized, just scanning through all that stuff takes a long time.' While you want to know about automated emails like calendar notifications for example, chances are you've already accepted those invites in your calendar, for example, so marking all those as read or snooze them for later with a couple of clicks saves a lot of time. In addition, the team also built Shortwave with the idea that your inbox, whether you like it or not, is a to-do list.

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