Hello everyone and welcome back to keep a productive youtube channel. It is francesco here today
We're going to be diving into hey.com. This is a new email application that is set to release in July
2020 from the folks at Basecamp. We'll be going over all that
You need to know including the pricing some of the features and a little bit about their
Manifesto, so in today's video, let's roll into talking about hey
So as I said today's video is all about email
it's kind of interesting space at the moment, especially with super human Newton's return and
We're going to be reviewing a spike to point now this week as well. So it's very interesting how this is turning out
So what I want to start with is what Hakam is about so unlike tools like super human at Newton. They're normally clients
This is actually going to be an email surface itself. Very similar to say the lights of Gmail or Outlook
You will get something called in at hey comm address
So it becomes an actual email base itself now on top of this their lair this lovely client
Which is available on web Mac Linux Windows
IPhone iPad and Android which is good out of the box now for those who don't know
Basecamp is a fairly old company 21 years old and they've been very much the endorses of remote work
This sort of like people first companies versus you know said necessarily aggressive aggressive sort of marketing folks
but they've been profitable for 21 years and
A fully independent company, so they talked a lot about this sort of email
manifesto this Haley manifesto that essentially
Changes the way that you think about email and they've introduced a fair few sort of concepts
They even state in their sort of opening page that email deserves a dust off a renovation
modernized for the way we email today and to some extent I agree with that because a lot of the way that we've sort of
communicates days through sort of
Synchronous communication a lot of slack a lot of the instant messages and this application sort of tries to dust off dust off those
Approaches now, let's start with the price
I think it's important to start with the price because it's quite an expensive application but something bid as a personal email tool
If you're willing to pay
Then it's something that I guess sort of price itself in a similar sort of ranges. So Microsoft 365 per year
I sort of range it is
$99 per year for that email and that works out. I'm at 825 Don this month
which is
Reasonable for example, I pay fingers $12 or $15 the missive
So again a little bit cheaper then some of the tools out there and if you're looking at say superhuman again
That's $30 a month
So dramatically cheaper and if you're looking at say Newton at Newton's $49 a years
So maybe double the price at Newton but again?
Obviously some of the things that they do have a 14-day free trial and they do plan to release in July
2020. Okay. So let's overview some of the features
I'm actually going to use the 37 minute product tour that they're founder actually goes through on YouTube
So I'll include that link below if you watch the full feature with him over viewing some of the features
So what's interesting is they're the futures really revolve around
You not being overwhelmed by email. So the first feature that they have is something called in M box
It's I genuinely thought was a type and I thought how did you get out type it wrong. I've been actually stands for important inbox
important emails
It's essentially trying to do is change the way
that we think about emails itself and this constant sort of new thread of
emails coming through that it just from say loads of different sources it tries to channel only the most important emails and
As you're using it
Apparently it learns over time about what are those important emails?
And what it does with the other emails is it puts it into something called the feeb which I quite like because it's almost social
networks
Newsletters and things that you commonly will be browsing
This could be you know, everything from newsletters to company updates and things
That less important and not sent by a human per se
So that's quite cool. There's inbox and
They have this sort of tertiary area
Well, they have loads of areas but one is called paper trail and I really like this concept
So what it does is it strips anything that is from the feed and inbox?
but doesn't put them there that is like say receipts or said like
Documents of invoices and puts them in this and called a paper trail so that you can find them on
reference at any given time it's sort of like having an Evernote built inside of your email and sort of works in a way that
segregates that all into one area now
There's actually tons of like these smaller futures and maybe I won't caption them all in today's video
But I want to feature a couple of them here
so obviously when you're emailing you may have an email that comes in that you don't necessarily want to reply straight away to
There this feature called reply later
Which doesn't necessarily some snooze it it actually puts it into a new window called focus and reply later
So you've got this dedicated window that you can actually go and focus in on and actually draws the emails to your attention
I think in Gmail if you have to do that
You'd have to create some form of label and then just like manage a system or a workflow for it
Whereas this actually designs it on the front. So it sort of like beats snooze in a way, which is quite interesting
so for example
There are like two things that allow you to clip pieces of information inside of an email
You can say if there's an email that you've got that you want to save for later that could be useful for reference could be
Useful for travel could be useful just for general access
so there's a future hole to set aside which actually takes it away and
Puts it in there a separate almost like starring your emails to some extent but useful for they sort of on-the-go
Situations almost, you know pinning them into this dedicated area
but there's also this feature called clip and you have an area called my clips and basically what you can do from here is
essentially take any clipping that can be specific like a phone number or like an
Article or things like that and actually clip it into Mike area. They've got some quite cool features for teams
I guess or people that work in constant sort of
threads and
They've got a thing called like merged threads where if you've got an email that's sort of similar to another email that you've signed it
It it's on the same topic you can merge threads so that the emails come together as one which is quite interesting
There's another feature called change subject as well. So if somebody sends you an email that
you know is very
Complicated subject line you want to change it yourself?
What's quite cool is you can actually modificated your end which makes it better for search makes it better for
You know being able to access those files pretty instantaneously
So apparently whenever you've got a conversation open, you can actually add personal private notes
That won't be seen by the people in the thread to this
This is actually a hand if you try to use in missive occasionally to leave myself notes to reference for later
So one of the major features I actually missed and I guess something that could be important is the screening abilities
So there's a the feature will screaming
Essentially aren't screening phone calls and you can basically approve people to come inside of your inbox or inbox
and that actually saves you a bit of time in terms of like whether you want to be spammed by certain people or
Actually have messages come in and you can actually reject them and they'll just disappear
into the system
So it's really trying to protect your attention span and really trying to defend against unwanted messages
now some of the finer details
Hey actually blocks spine tracking. So it actually blocks out those sort of pixel tracking
They're sent by applications like Newton
missive like read receipts so that you can actually detect when a person emails that so you won't be able to get sort of like
Hidden stuff inside the email that you don't know about coming your way. So looking at the
Manifesto and there's some quite interesting stuff. They really try and
Centralize this around a belief system, which I think is good
Like if you've if you're thinking of changing the system
then if you've got like this sort of mantra to go by you'll continually refine the features to fit that need and apparently
You know, the first thing is it's a platform not a client
So they're actually built this from the bottom up for email service provider
They want to attain not your attention like sort of like
Distracting you away from thing and try and get make you get less email focus on workflows not workaround
Start fresh as well a lot of people
Overwhelmed by the current emails in Gmail
You can download your data as well any time so you can import it back into Gmail if and say two years this fails
But I can imagine with Basecamp. They've meticulously
Selected how this is going to work
So this is actually really useful piece of content and overview and it's definitely worth a read of how they believe about
You no need to read anything you need to surface. You don't need to dig for information
And really keep you in this flow state. So the article will be below
And it's quite interesting. So I've covered the futures. Obviously there are some more
Covered be pricing and also some of the manifesto pieces. So in my opinion, I think hey Dom will be quite an interesting release
I think email probably needed something like this an additional player and I will be checking it out and
giving you my full opinion after a credit for say a week get us some of those emails in there and
Give you my thoughts on it. So folks a big. Thank you for stopping by today
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