Product
7 min read
Inbox zero is the wrong goal
Emptying a folder is not the same as knowing what matters. We rebuilt triage around the second problem, and the first one solved itself.
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Dana Whitfield
Head of Product
Notes from inside a very busy inbox.
What we're building, what we got wrong, and what we've learned from people who get four hundred messages before lunch.
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Everything we've published, newest first.
AI
7 min read
How Parrot labels your mail, and exactly what leaves your account
Categorization is one model call per message. Here is precisely what we send, what comes back, what we keep, and why we stopped claiming it runs locally.
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Priya Nair
ML Engineer
Guides
6 min read
Five inboxes, one keyboard: a triage routine that holds up
A repeatable ten-minute morning pass for people running multiple accounts, built from what our heaviest users actually do.
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Marcus Bell
Customer Engineering
Engineering
11 min read
Rendering 40,000 threads without dropping a frame
Virtualization gets you most of the way. The last stretch was avoiding layout thrash on a list where every row can change height.
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Sam Okafor
Client Engineering
AI
8 min read
Search that understands the question, not just the words
"The contract Dana sent before the offsite" is a perfectly reasonable query. It just isn't a keyword.
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Priya Nair
ML Engineer
Company
5 min read
Why the world needed one more email client
Everyone told us the category was finished. They were right about the category and wrong about the problem.
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Elena Vasquez
Co-founder
Product
6 min read
Keyboard-first, by default and without a cheat sheet
Shortcuts only help if you can find them. We designed the discovery path before we designed the bindings.
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Marcus Bell
Customer Engineering
Get the next issue before anyone else.
Product notes, engineering write-ups, and the occasional strong opinion about email. Twice a month, that's it.