Can this new tool from Basecamp help with your email organisation?
Yesterday Jason Fried, the Founder & CEO of Basecamp, Tweeted about a new email service called Hey which will be released in April.
As you know, email is a topic I love to talk about and help organise for my clients, so any new service that comes out regarding email is something I will always look into.
Keep an eye out on their website for updates, but I’ll definitely be making videos about it, so make sure you’re subscribed.
Transcript
we all really hate email but we do need
to use it we don't know how to use it
properly and it's completely
disorganized hi my name is Kay I'm a
tech minimalist and I help my clients
organize their technology to free up
their time so yesterday there was a
tweet by a guy called Jason freed and he
basically tweeted about a new service
now he tweeted about this a while ago I
think it was last year about their
coming out with a new service he didn't
actually say what it was yesterday about
half past five I'm looking at the tweet
now he basically tweeted out that they
are working on the tool that they're
working on is gonna disrupt I use that
way I use that right not he I don't like
what the email space basically now we're
you know he was talking about we're
stuck with Gmail and places like yahoo
but now iCloud and so on and they have
created and they being Basecamp
now Jason freed is actually the founder
and CEO of Basecamp
which is a fantastic tool and they've
created this tool has taken a while to
create it and they've been testing it
internally for a few months now
apparently and they're gonna basically
unveil it in April now when he first
came out with a new tool for some
bizarre reason I thought it would be a
CMS that would be connecting to Basecamp
which would actually work but this
actually makes a lot more sense now if
Basecamp and this new email tool and in
fact the email tool is called hey H ey
so if you go to hey calm you'll be able
to get some information actually they've
got a website there they'll give you
some information about why they've
created this app and what is trying to
resolve and solve so email is a big
thing for me most of the time when I
work with my clients the first thing I
look at is their email and how organ
or disorganized it is and from that from
then I will know basically how to move
forward and help them out what what
areas of issues that they have so email
is a huge thing for me and and I think
it's a huge thing for everybody so any
app or any service that comes out and
tries to solve this issue hasn't
generally gone too well however I do
trust what Basecamp as a company does
how they work the philosophy behind how
they solving business problems so this
might have some legwork now I don't know
any other information other than the
what I know on the website and going
through the website it's actually pretty
much like a email or or a letter from
Jason talking about the issues of email
and so on so it's coming April 2020 I'm
hoping it's not an April Fool's joke he
tweeted today actually that they've had
the early beta I guess and I'm probably
not beta but what's it called early
invites I should say I think within a
minute or two I saw the tweet I sent an
invite so let's hope I'm in there as
well let's see what happens if you have
any problems with the emails put them
down in the comments below or better
still contact me through Mac junkie comm
I'll be glad to help you out and I'd
love to help you out with that it's one
of my favorite subjects actually it's so
simple to fix and it's actually my
favorite subject so it kind of works out
with what I do anyway when hey calm the
email service comes out I will be
talking about it more if you have any
scare stories about your email I'd love
to know however good or bad
I'd really like to know your story
however good or bad as I said with your
email anyway I'll leave it there it's
Friday have a great weekend I'll see you
on Monday and next week the arc or the
the store the videos and the episodes
I'm going to make are going to be about
training anyway talk to you then have a
great weekend and remember keep it
simple
ciao bye-bye