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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by dheera »

andybak wrote: post #32

So mixed messages again. Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project that will get closed down in a year? Momentum has slowed and I've become so dependent on it's workflow I'd be gutted if this was the case. However - I don't believe Google will maintain two email clients in perpetuity. On past experience - they'll fold the functionality of one into the other - partially and imperfectly leaving users i…

Inbox still sucks for me because

* It doesn't show full messages on Android Wear devices. You know, Google's own product. Gmail does.

* I can't figure out how to set up a filter in Inbox. The settings page is incomplete. I still have to go back to Gmail to change settings. So I might as well just use Gmail.

* The pins in Inbox don't sync up with the stars in Gmail. Pins, stars, tabs, automatic Gmail categories, automatic Inbox categories, seriously, can we just have one system?

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

#102

Post by dheera »

bradstewart wrote: post #91
jastanton wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got a toast notification in gmail that asked me to permanently redirect Gmail to Inbox. I believe that answered the questions for myself what direction that are heading.

Remember when Google was toasting away to get everyone to use Hangouts for SMS? A few weeks ago, I got a toast in Hangouts asking me to use their new SMS-only Messenger app. You never know.

Can we kill SMS already? Seriously, what's wrong with e-mail? Everyone has data plans nowadays, if not data-only plans, and e-mail is cross-platform. Stop making me have to carry my phone around. I already have my SMS forwarding to my e-mail automatically, and now I'm just waiting for SMS to die.

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by krisgenre »

andybak wrote: post #32

So mixed messages again. Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project that will get closed down in a year? Momentum has slowed and I've become so dependent on it's workflow I'd be gutted if this was the case. However - I don't believe Google will maintain two email clients in perpetuity. On past experience - they'll fold the functionality of one into the other - partially and imperfectly leaving users i…

I find Inbox to be good on mobile and Gmail good on desktop browser. Even if they do close the Inbox website, hope they'll let the mobile client stay.

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by Iburinoc »

dheera wrote: post #102
bradstewart wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when Google was toasting away to get everyone to use Hangouts for SMS? A few weeks ago, I got a toast in Hangouts asking me to use their new SMS-only Messenger app. You never know.

Can we kill SMS already? Seriously, what's wrong with e-mail? Everyone has data plans nowadays, if not data-only plans, and e-mail is cross-platform. Stop making me have to carry my phone around. I already have my SMS forwarding to my e-mail automatically, and now I'm just waiting for SMS to die.

I'm not sure about the US but in Canada it's certainly not true that everyone has data plans (in fact as far as I can tell unless you have a company sponsored phone, data plans are in the minority), and SMS remains a cheap communication method that is more or less guaranteed to work.

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by [deleted] »

finishingmove wrote: post #100

"Gmailify links your existing account to Gmail" -- okaaay. At least it's stated clearly in this case. The whole merge-with-Google thing (which they've also been known to do as opt-out, albeit not in this particular case) is exactly the reason why I'm avoiding a lot of Google's services, and why I respect (and trust) Microsoft more in recent years. It just saddens me that Outlook for Android is so bad in some things,…

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Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

[deleted] wrote: post #105
finishingmove wrote: post #100

"Gmailify links your existing account to Gmail" -- okaaay. At least it's stated clearly in this case. The whole merge-with-Google thing (which they've also been known to do as opt-out, albeit not in this particular case) is exactly the reason why I'm avoiding a lot of Google's services, and why I respect (and trust) Microsoft more in recent years. It just saddens me that Outlook for Android is so bad in some things,…

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Because it's opt-in, not opt-out.

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

#107

Post by kentonv »

kuschku wrote: post #94
vamega wrote: post #93

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When you say authentication, do you mean the cloud engine doesn't authenticate against your email providers, or that the desktop client doesn't authenticate against the cloud engine?

I mean that there is no password between desktop client and the open source cloud engine – anyone can log in to it just like that. The tokens to auth are world-readable under /accounts or /n

This sounds like a job for Sandstorm.io...

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

#108

Post by wohlben »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #82
Numberwang wrote: post #48

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I have the same fears but from the opposite end. I need gmail in my life, and cannot understand why anyone would want Inbox at all. It shows my emails (fewer than in gmail) and combines it with a subpar task manager (in a world of subpar task managers) and wrecks on this "smart" categorization system which is just there for devious purposes and most importantly I cannot trust to do it's job properly. I fear for gmail…

Meh. I use Inbox, it's my default on all devices. It's pretty smart at filtering out social/ad crap, the search bar is more prominent and works very well, and it's got a nice, simple interface. It's different, but IMO far better.

the same filtering is possible in the classic gmail interface though... you just have to enable the catagories

i personally use it as well, i just love the 'dismiss everything' button :)

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

finishingmove wrote: post #109
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's opt-in, not opt-out.

I did not say this feature is opt-out.

Huh? But your comment says:

> but this "opt-out, merge-with-Google" thing is exactly the reason why I'm avoiding a lot of Google's services

It's opt-in, you call it an "opt-out, merge-with-Google" thing. How is that not calling it opt-out?

Your comment or at least its intent is confusing.

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