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Inboxes are Underrated
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On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.
I have a lot of communication apps. By volume: Twitter DMs, Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, Discord, email. Because I have so many disjoint places where communication happens, I have a daily task on Todoist to go through each of these, and ensure that every conversation is handled, where “handled” means: if I can reply immediately, I do so; otherwise, I make a task to reply. Polling is better than interrupts. But this is imperfect, because often I get distracted, and I do neither. Sometimes I read the other person’s message, and mentally begin drafting a reply, but forget to make a task. Sometimes
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