Chris Bowler:
But what if we used the ones we have for communicating, and moved all the content within our messages to tools better suited for managing information and tasks?
My feeling is we’d loathe our email clients a lot less.
I’m also guilty of using my email client (Apple Mail) for more than just ephemeral communication. I use it as an archive, which, despite that I know I should be keeping all that stuff in a different place, has served me well over the years when I needed to find something. What I have been able to restrain from, though, is using my email client as a todo list. I use TaskPaper for that.
via Shawn Blanc
