Mail and calendar, now inside Mesh

Since April I’ve been building Mesh, a personal tool that helps me keep my network together and stay in touch with the people who matter to me.

Mesh reads my Gmail, my Google Calendar and WhatsApp. It knows when I last spoke to someone, what we talked about and what is still open between us. But whenever I wanted to answer an email or check a meeting, I had to leave Mesh and switch to another app.

So I built a mail and calendar client into Mesh itself, for now on my Mac.

A mail thread in Mesh with a card beside it showing who the sender is, the last contact and open promises, under the line “Who they are, next to the mail.”

The inbox has views for mail from people in my network and for threads where someone is waiting on me. When I hover over a name, a small card shows what Mesh knows about that person, when we last spoke and what’s due. If someone isn’t in Mesh yet, I can add them right there.

The calendar works the same way. Opening a meeting shows which attendees I already know, the open follow-ups with them and the notes from our last meetings.

A meeting in the Mesh calendar with its attendees, who is already in Mesh and the notes before the meeting, under the line “Know who’s in the room.”

The Mesh overview for the day: meetings, threads waiting on me and my open promises, under the line “What needs you today.”

Today is the first day I’m using it for real. Over the years I’ve tried pretty much every mail client out there and always ended up back in Apple Mail. Let’s see if this one is the first to replace it.

Mail and calendar, now inside Mesh

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