Everyone I work with is part of at least a dozen Slack workspaces with disparate notification settings. I get loads of notifications at times when I can't reply immediately, but there is no system comparable to _not archiving an email_ so I remember to come back to it. I get the convenience of semi-synchronous conversations and being able to engage and catch people up better than forwarding an email chain, but Slack and its ilk are very, very far from replacing email.
I've always wished that Gmail (or some other email client) would add support for creating arbitrary "folders" each with an "inbox" and an "archive" section.
The Gmail inbox -> archive flow works really well, but I'd like to have multiple such inboxes for different mailing lists.
A prime example is pull request notification emails: I want them to skip my inbox and go into a "folder", but I want to keep track of which ones I still need to review so the archiving model would be great.
I could hack such a workflow together using multiple labels, but it wouldn't have the convenience of a universal "archive" keyboard shortcut / button.
Slack workspaces aren’t good. I hate switching between them. I can get to “inbox” zero in my email and one slack workspace. Switching between them is too
much friction.
