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The Power of HEY

nashp.com/mc My HEY subscription was about to expire a few weeks ago, and I wanted to see what life was like not using HEY anymore. It didn’t take long for me to realize that was a mistake. What you’re seeing here is my current inbox. Email has never looked so good. That’s thanks to the features HEY offers: • The Screener lets me decide who enters my email system, removing spam and annoying emails that don’t add value to my life. • Renaming emails and merging them together allow me turn regular emails into projects and clean lists of what’s going on in my life. • Paper Trail lets me move receipts and emails that I don’t care about, but also want to have for reference, out the way of my main inbox. Once you get used to HEY, it’s hard to go back to the old way of managing emails. #email #apps #iphone #group #systems #simple #structure #hey #newsletter #minimal #cleanup #projects #lists #organizing

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George Garner

I really want to use Hey, but their company ethics are deeply troubling to me. Rather than engaging with the world around them and trying to be a force for good, the company shuts down all discussion— both by internal employees and on community groups. As someone who works for a civil rights museum, I find this “head in the sand” approach too limiting and too harmful to justify using it (especially considering the high cost). Here’s more about it: https://artifact.news/l/xY3ju6damAM=

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Santi

“Engaging with the world around them and trying to be a force for good”?? They’re an email service. What are you expecting? The UN?

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Justin Beeson

Try shortwave

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Seth.Lnh

Thanks for the recommendation. When I checked out, looks like I had downloaded it once before and must have deleted it. Checking it out again whatever they changed makes me want to keep it now. I also love that its interface is responsive and it’s Free! My gmail is so clean now.

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Andy Nicolaides

HEY is a service I’d love to love, but it seems extremely over engineered for my personal needs. It’s certainly great looking, but I’ve found it can buckle a little when you start getting too many emails into it. I’m intrigued by the calendar component they’re adding soon, and it’s certainly a product I’ll keep an eye on, but I think I’m going to try and stick with iCloud mail. It’s great to hear how these kind of services really resonate with people though so I’m glad it’s working so well for your use cases.

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nashpdotcom

I tried Apple Mail for the past two weeks, and it was a mess. I couldn’t stop getting spam. And there’s no easy way to organize all that’s coming in. Any thoughts on these two things?

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nashpdotcom

And I’m anxious for their calendar too. Hopefully it can replace Fantastical for me.

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Luke Sizmur

It’s just quite expensive.. I appreciate it costs to run and they are a for profit business but it’s hard to justify the price. Maybe that’s just me

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nashpdotcom

This was my thinking when my subscription expired. Couldn’t justify it, I thought. Then I went two weeks without it, and was miserable the whole time. Guess I’m spoiled to it now.

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Pete D

I agree, I was interested when I heard about Hey but $100 year for email? That’s just not worth it. I’ve been happily living on Fastmail for a couple of years now and love it, it’s 1/3rd the price and the integration with 1Password is especially nice.

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Bacon

I do a lot of what you mentioned via a standard Gmail and some filtering rules/labels. I.e. Certain emails go straight to archive/spam/deleted. Others get label(s) attached to them (receipts, home, etc) and can be marked as “Read” or moved based on sender, subject, etc. Other than mail merging (which sounds a bit confusing imo) what else do I get for $100?

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