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Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to email?

1 points by DinakarS ↗ HN
Emails work in some cases. In many cases, it leads to threads of content that go missed.

Once we get a new batch of emails, the old content simply go unnoticed. Buried, never to be opened again.

Is this the best way to handle information in 2026?

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slwvx
Become an email completionist, and send emails to other people as if they should also be email completionists.
djaouen
Yes. I call it, “Talking In Real Life” (TM).
Bender
Email, chat and almost everything else is just text. All text is searchable. I think what you really want is something that searches email and chat systems for relevant topics and maps them together for your org highlighting things people are talking about. The search system would have to be aware of identities to avoid leaking sensitive information and causing corporate security incidents.