Speed of Collaboration in the Days of Email vs Teams/Slack

Email feels so old and slow, especially when compared to the teal-time multiplayer world of Teams and Slack.

It makes sense for transactional emails but conversations and project managing it sucks. But you can’t just add a client or external contact to your chat app.

Idea:

What if an initial email is sent and it operates as expected. You send something along the lines:

Hi Becky,
It’s great to meet you. I would love to work with you to get ______ completed by such and such a date. Please find attached a file that is required for this project.
Let me know if you have any question.
-Anthony

Made up by me

This is where it gets fun

Once the recipient replies or accepts the messages, the thread then morphs into more of a live style conversation. No more signatures repeated over and over or from: to: cc: fields creating noise to pour through or weird formatting problems. It’s becomes a chat with multiple players.

  • Participants From: and To:
  • Observers CC:

Attachments, links, and relative information could be pulled and listed to a special tab/space and possibly even anchored at the part of the conversation that was relevant

May you could see if someone was on Live for a short period of time.

It could be wild but it would maybe help or maybe things a lot shittier. But at least we’re trying.

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