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How to turn your email into a collaboration tool
- greyboy 14y agoBetter title: 5 simple tips to turn GMail into a powerful collaboration tool
- anujkk 14y agoEven Better Title - Show HN : Grexit - Simple, powerful collaboration - Right from your Gmail Inbox.
- nsns 14y agoCorrect. For me, the post is quite manipulative and borders on deception, ordering it the other way around would make it better and honest. (You can make a good product and sell it, even without succumbing to the temptations of using temptation tactics.)
- nirajr 14y agoSteps 1 to 4 have absolutely no dependence on GrexIt. What is manipulative in that?
- nirajr 14y agoYou can replicate almost all of this in most email platforms as they all have folders and filters/rules.
- pavlov 14y agoWhy is the service named after a widely speculated outcome of the Euro crisis -- "Grexit"? Is that some form of SEO, that is, are they hoping to hijack a popular neologism?
- nirajr 14y agoWe named our product GrexIt long before someone started using the term for Greece's eurozone exit. Look for our coverage in TNW, RWW and GigaOm in March to june last year, which was before the term was coined. If anything, the term has only hurt us by badly polluting our analytics.
- mixmax 14y agogetting your name inadvertedly hijacked by a term that suddenly becomes popular is a pretty unique situation. I'd love to read a blogpost about how it affected your site and business.
- nirajr 14y agoThat sounds like a good thing to do. I shall do the blog post soon. Thanks.
- auston 14y agoI can vouch for this, GrexIt applied to present at my conference in 2011.
- ljoshua 14y agoI definitely like some of the capabilities that Grexit provides, but did want to note that using your email in this way (as a collaborative, task-tracking tool) is one of the worst ways to beef up your email overload, individually and as an organization. It's a question of the right tool for the right job.
- nirajr 14y agoLots of companies would like to stick to a tool that they already know how to use. Even keeping GrexIt out of the picture, the tips we suggested can really help. Do give this a try.
- ljoshua 14y agoDefinitely agree, and Grexit is great for that and I do really like the tips. Not trying to denigrate here. Just pointing out it's a factor in some settings.
- nirajr 14y agoI understand where you are coming from, and that is one of the biggest challenges for us. We really feel that with an email centric approach, we can help companies which want to do light-weight collaboration, and are fine with trading off very rich functionality for a simple email centric workflow. Do look at our reviews on the Google Apps marketplace - we have quite a few companies as paying customers now: http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=5337+4027123137344563883 http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?pro...
- cheema 14y agoIts been a past criticism of Gmail service too, when it introduced the 'no-folders' concept. "All inter-galactic mail in one single inbox folder. You must be kidding." But slowly, one gets used to the fact its just a different way of organizing mail, and quite an efficient one at that. So if you just get your head around a new approach like Grexit, you can save the overhead of using multiple project management tools, task queues etc, and save on their respective learning curves as well. Everybody knows how to use email.
- prashantraj 14y agoYo Grexit!!
- ckapoor 14y agos
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