I have been a longtime user of Superhuman but since they increased the price and now have been acquired by Grammarly (see discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433994) I want to find an alternative.
It doesn't need to have all the "AI" that Superhuman has but keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys are a must. Must also have a mobile app
I've tried Spark, Shortwave, Apple Mail, Gmail, Thunderbird and none of them really compare.
Mutt. The learning curve is substantial and the omnipresence of HTML and graphics is email will make the experience poor… but if you take part in multiple mailing lists and are 99% text and little else, it’s worth the hassle.
The lack of support for graphics sounds limiting until you realise that most graphics attached to emails that you need to read, are just in people's signatures and a complete waste of your screen space and bandwidth... :D
There was a tool shared on "Show HN" that used a lightweight, local LLM to convert any web page into plain text for use with a text-based browser. I suppose something similar could be done with mutt as well.
I wanted to build something similar that works nicely across different devices (mac/linux) that is fast and supports keyboard-first navigation as I'm also struggling with a similar problem.
When surveying potential users I discovered that most are happy with the web gmail interface and don't really care. It sounds like a very niche requirement and it'll be very challenging to find enough customers (1k+) who would care about using a very nice email client.
