Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
Who are all of these people who struggle with email? What&#x27;s causing so many problems? I use the built-in macOS Mail app, and it works brilliantly. It threads conversations, and I can quickly mark multiple messages as read. It&#x27;s responsive and native, and even themes non-HTML email in a reliably readable dark mode.<p>I have a few filters set up to send annoying things to spam or a dedicated folder (alas, dear JIRA, I have never wanted to read one of your notifications). But my personal account works perfectly without any kind of filters or folders at all. I even use my protonmail accounts through the protonmail app and those work fine.<p>Is there something wrong with me? Am _I_ the one using email wrong? But it works well for me, and I seem consistently better at responding to messages, so... I&#x27;m mostly just confused. I use read&#x2F;unread as a means of triaging &quot;email I have to deal with&quot; and &quot;email I&#x27;ve already dealt with&quot;, but that&#x27;s basically my only system.<p>Seriously, can someone explain this problem? In my eyes, email and RSS are pretty much the only internet protocols that have JUST WORKED for 20-30 years, my entire life. Everything else has been infected by adware and spyware and garbage. Maybe they&#x27;re stagnant... or maybe they&#x27;re just mature?