TECHNOLOGY | EMAIL
Hey! Did Someone Reinvent Email?
Three-month review of Basecamp’s new email app
by Sharon Hurley Hall
Update: I cancelled my Hey account due to Basecamp’s stance on what it considers “political” discussion. Check out this article on The Verge for the details.
Anyone who knows me knows I suffer from shiny new object syndrome, though I’m trying to recover.
I’m also always looking for better ways to do things. So when Basecamp said they were launching a new, improved email client called Hey, I didn’t think twice before signing up.
It’s not the first time I’ve tried new approaches to email. I was an early user of Gmail, and of the now-defunct Inbox, and I’ve tried other desktop email clients, too. Several years on, Gmail is the only one I use regularly.
Still, I was as curious as the next person to see if email really could be reinvented, so I had to try it out for myself. A few months on, my answer to the questions is sorta kinda. There are a couple…
