Email Warning Messages
I’ve made some catastrophic mistakes with email. I’ve sent calendar invites only to myself, sensitive information to unintended recipients, messages with no subject, or with no attachments when attachments were intended.
Thankfully, many potential issues with email sending have been addressed, at least with Gmail. Warnings about attachments not attached has been a game changer or “Reply” being “Replay All” when you’re responding to your own email.
It seems like the major advances in email warnings stagnated over 10 years ago. Why not sentiment analysis? Why not a warning when the person you’re writing is too busy? Or when 10 other people are composing a response on the same thread and when you write yours, you get a warning that others are composing so your email doesn’t get buried?
Boomerang added “respondability” tools but with all the data we have on emails, we should be able to go further.
