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Which email clients work well with keyboard shortcuts?

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I have been a longtime user of Superhuman but since they increased the price and now have been acquired by Grammarly (see discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433994) I want to find an alternative.

It doesn't need to have all the "AI" that Superhuman has but keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys are a must. Must also have a mobile app

I've tried Spark, Shortwave, Apple Mail, Gmail, Thunderbird and none of them really compare.

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achempion
I wanted to build something similar that works nicely across different devices (mac/linux) that is fast and supports keyboard-first navigation as I'm also struggling with a similar problem.

When surveying potential users I discovered that most are happy with the web gmail interface and don't really care. It sounds like a very niche requirement and it'll be very challenging to find enough customers (1k+) who would care about using a very nice email client.

boofbaf
Probably alpine or mutt. Both are console based and most linux systems have at least one of them installed usually.
ale_jacques
What kind of shortcuts you're looking for? Spark has a lot (almost all primary functions has one) of keyboard shortcuts.
atmosx
Mutt. The learning curve is substantial and the omnipresence of HTML and graphics is email will make the experience poor… but if you take part in multiple mailing lists and are 99% text and little else, it’s worth the hassle.
fbu
Sorry to be that guy. But Emacs ? Free forever and great at keyboard shortcuts.

Probably still needs a good text editor though.