Gadgetory

so email is dead it's dead it's being viciously horribly murdered right now and you wrote a story about it yeah tell me about the story you wrote it well I wrote a story about a SAP called slack which is kind of like an AOL chat room from 15 years ago but with all your colleagues in it but has as good of a search as Gmail and what it can do is replace the way you talk to your colleagues but also all the emails you've been sending around your office and all the gifts and all the weird stuff and and everything like that okay but isn't that like every chat app ever haven't they all tried to do this like a watch at rooms tried to do this I guess it was like my middle school friends not my colleagues but like what's different yes like but like none of them have succeeded in doing any good multi-platform apps with like any indexing or search or anything like Gmail at all and they also have support for like every attachment you've ever sent me I can be like all the weird cool gifts that David's ever sent me I can see them all inside of one pane or let's say we're working on an article together which we do sometimes Noren can see all those things together and search for them whereas like man how much time you spend going through email trying to find the right conversation but this is all assuming that you're like pretty descriptive you know we're writers after all but I still have trouble searching for things sometimes so crew I think that's a problem with both email and slack biggest slack is better than like the janky subject lines I was just right like hey in email subject lines which is horrible when you're trying to search for something yeah but here's the other crazy part it's like if you using Gmail or something like that not only does it feel really sluggish in general this is real time so it's like chat but it's also like you can plug in all these things that used to clog up your inbox with notifications like let's say there's a new bug report that somebody files let's say there's a new notification from Twitter that somebody followed advert a lot of people a lot of developers especially have like a bazillion notifications for all that stuff now you pipe them in through slack and it's all in one thing and you can search for it and there's even a slack bot that can show you whatever you want Jurassic Park pictures pictures neill I on a boat whatever you want those are actually the only two things yeah that's good that's fine I'm happy so who is slack killing email for so it's killing email surprisingly for enterprises which is like a super hard market to get into but companies like Adobe and eBay and PayPal are using slack to talk to each other the weird thing though is that it's not like the whole company's using it it's like smaller teams within the company are using slack and they're talked when you talking to each other on this thing and they're still emailing like some people outside the company but I think the point that we're getting to is where we need to be where the way I talk to my friends might be on Facebook or whatsapp or iMessage the way I talk to people at work is on slack the way I talk to my family is through some other app that's like a little more family oriented and I think that's the point we're getting to the point is like email has no context it's just text with like these big chunky attachments and the phone app probably sucks and doesn't let you search for what you're looking for and let's say somebody joins your company they start new email address they get a new at the verge email address they're starting from blank slate with slack you get an address and you can search for anything over the whole history of everything that you guys talked about so you think we're done with this thing where it's like I have one service that communicates with everything cuz that's all email is good for right so as long as you like definitely email you I know that for sure for everyone on earth like right do we not need that anymore it's always gonna be there just like phone numbers or something like that are always going to be there in some shape form or another even if if 50 years we're not using phone numbers or anything like that it's almost like you'd have it set up so that if somebody does decide to call you it'll just forward through to your your snapchat call or whatever it is and I think that's the big idea is that we're finding better ways to communicate and email I think is going to be around for a long time I mean the slack CEO admits that this is how we still talk to people outside the company but for small teams I think that having a chat slash email real-time chat thing AOL altogether is a really good solution so basically just you know snapchat me or slack me or DM me or pick anything just please for the love of God stop emailing me yes you