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HEY vs Superhuman vs Gmail

Comparing “email at its best” to “the fastest email experience ever made”

For anyone spending over an hour a day in their inbox, tools that improve the experience are a huge deal. The fancy new email product offerings vary widely, because each was founded upon unique ideas of what email can and should be. The following are the biggest differences I identified after using HEY for 8 days, Superhuman for 9 months, and Gmail for 15 years.

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When are you done? When all your messages are READ or ARCHIVED?

Do you want to actively mark an email as done? Or do you prefer every email you open to be automatically marked as done? This is the biggest difference between HEY and Superhuman, and they’re both right.

• Striving towards “zero unreads” is less stressful, you don’t need to take action on every email, just read it. This strategy is also more likely to cause you to miss an important email. For example if you opened a message and immediately got distracted by a phone call. If you receive more emails than you can possibly handle, you’ll prefer this strategy.