{"id":55385,"date":"2022-08-24T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/email-doesnt-suck-its-email-clients-that-need-improving\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:41:11","slug":"email-doesnt-suck-its-email-clients-that-need-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/email-doesnt-suck-its-email-clients-that-need-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Doesn’t Suck. It’s Email Clients That Need Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Postcards may be<\/span> one of the most obvious examples of Marshall McLuhan’s famous dictum, \u201cthe medium is the message.\u201d Regardless of what you write on one, a postcard tells someone, hey, I was out and about in the world, and I was thinking of you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I am an investerate sender of postcards. For all the instantaneousness of today’s communication options, nothing quite conveys a message the way a postcard does. Another aspect I find McLuhanesque is the gap between when you mail the postcard and when the person receives it. the card is independent of both sender and receiver; third parties carry it to its fate.<\/p>\n

I also love email, which I’ve always thought of as the digital equivalent of a postcard.<\/p>\n

While email doesn’t have the physical limitations of a postcard (though email is similarly \u201copen\u201d in the sense that anyone with snooping skills can read one in transit), there is a shift in time between sending and receiving in both formats. And I would argue that the best emails follow the same format as a postcard: simple, focused messages.<\/p>\n

Not everyone loves email, of course, but I am convinced that much of the dislike we have for email comes from the software we use to interact with it. That is, email clients.<\/p>\n