Which email clients work well with keyboard shortcuts?

3 points by tenzo a day ago

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.

atmosx 6 hours ago

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.

  • msgodel 6 hours ago

    Yeah I was just about to suggest mutt. You can always just | elinks --dump | less for html email.

    IMO not having clickable links in email is actually a plus.

boofbaf a day ago

Probably alpine or mutt. Both are console based and most linux systems have at least one of them installed usually.

achempion a day ago

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.

ale_jacques 17 hours ago

What kind of shortcuts you're looking for? Spark has a lot (almost all primary functions has one) of keyboard shortcuts.