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title: "Email as Everything"
publishedAt: "2024-12-20"
summary: "Email is the ultimate protocol. Email can be the building block of everything—and everything can be reimagined through email."
---

Email is the ultimate protocol. Email can be the building block of everything and everything can be reimagined through email.

- Email as [Social Network](https://activitypub.ghost.org/)

- Email as [Unified Notifications Inbox](https://julian.digital/2020/01/17/superhuman-the-productivity-meta-layer/)

- Email as [Changelog](https://buttondown.com/blog/shipped-at)

- Email as [Chat App for Teamwork](https://www.spikenow.com/)

- Email as [Note Taking](https://www.hey.com/features/thread-notes/)

- Email as [To-Do’s](https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-turn-emails-into-tasks/)

- Email as [Text-Messenger](https://mailtime.com/)

- Email as [CRM](https://www.micro.so/)


What if we started thinking of email not as a relic, but as a [playground](https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/everything-talks-email) for new products?