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Gmail Launches Add-ons

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Post by boomskats »

jypepin wrote: post #25

So, I started using inbox a while ago when it was announced and I love it. Really. What's the state of development of it? Doesn't seems to be moving much and a lot of features from gmail are still missing, and I continue to see dev happening on gmail and not on inbox. Should I be moving back to inbox?

Something others haven't mentioned here when discussing the gmail vs inbox situation is the trio of products, Keep + Cal + Inbox, that make for an absolutely _awesome_ reminder workflow/experience.

IMHO if there's one thing missing from Gmail right now is the integration of Reminders from the other products. It doesn't really fit with the gmail workflow though, so I guess it's just another example of the same 'gmail should be more inboxy/inbox should be more gmaily' argument.

Re: Gmail Launches Add-ons

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Post by jiggunjer »

cvsh wrote: post #202
forgotmypw wrote: post #23

Sounds a lot like Gmail Labs, which was discontinued. I've learned to expect most Google products to be killed off, so I don't even bother starting to use them anymore.

>I've learned to expect most Google products to be killed off, so I don't even bother starting to use them anymore. If there's one product that would incite the most furor if killed off, it's definitely Gmail. It's the best email provider around and email is what ties together most peoples' online lives. It's also at the core of Gsuite for businesses, which I imagine makes it net profitable.

Killing the app doesn't mean the email service disappears.

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Post by dang »

eradicatethots wrote: post #142
jrkdgdjenr wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inappropriate to whom? Pointing out that users are irrational is certainly relevant here. It’s difficult to see how exactly the implied condescension and arrogance here is inappropriate. Distracting? Sure. But this isn’t a self help forum, and you’re tossing the baby out with the bath water.

Is that how you excuse being a dick?

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.

Re: Gmail Launches Add-ons

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Post by halfteatree »

amigoingtodie wrote: post #137
halfteatree wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that something not like what the Internet is "supposed to be" can be working is exactly why the Internet is powerful.

A broken clock is correct twice a day, too.

Proof by analogy is fraud. You should know better.

If you really want to go down this path -- a broken clock is correct twice, as two discrete points in a continuous time space. The act of looking at the clock is analogous to sampling one discrete point in the time space. The possibility of sampling those two points at any given time is zero.

So no, a broken clock is not correct twice a day. Also, please stop proving anything with analogy.

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Post by pvdebbe »

I was a Gmail user since 2004 or so, relying on the Web client. It was good, the message threading worked, labels were strictly greater than folder structure, and archiving to "all mail" is an excellent notion.

The web UI has gone to crap lately, it being overly bloated, not refreshing inbox anymore after a while, getting rid of plain text (though this was a long time ago). The message composition editor is a mess!

I tried gmail with mutt, I tried gmail with mu4e. They didn't quite replicate the good bits what I wanted. To overcome the psychological barrier I changed email vendors and jumped to mu4e workflow with a fresh start. This is readily a better experience and since I didn't have to worry about fully replicating the Gmail experience I was able to "settle for less".

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Post by mariozivic »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #182
themacguffinman wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're missing the point of Inbox. It's not supposed to replace Gmail, not now and not ever. It's an additional way of using Gmail, hence why its full name is actually "Inbox by Gmail". Inbox is an attempt to make Gmail easier to use for the average user who has simple needs, so all the "power user" features you want aren't supposed to be in Inbox. If your needs are complicated, you can just use Gmail. Inbox…

Does Gmail have email snoozing? It didn't when I switched to Inbox and I wouldn't want to use an email client without it now.

Exactly this. This is THE advanced feature I need.

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Post by azernik »

gjjrfcbugxbhf wrote: post #176
guelo wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, a corporate spammer can tell google that an email is a calendar event (valuable data!). But the receiving user can't do it themselves using some other calendar app.

In android's intents model it's the email app so that would need to use the create event intent to send the data to the calendar. To do this the calendar would need to access the emails - which would need either IMAP built in to the calendar app [EDIT: or to change the android permission model]. Edited - finished sentence

The point of this structured data format is that you don't need to give the calendar app fill access to the email; just to the attached calendar info included in the email, which can be attached to the intent.

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Post by dbdr »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #182
themacguffinman wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're missing the point of Inbox. It's not supposed to replace Gmail, not now and not ever. It's an additional way of using Gmail, hence why its full name is actually "Inbox by Gmail". Inbox is an attempt to make Gmail easier to use for the average user who has simple needs, so all the "power user" features you want aren't supposed to be in Inbox. If your needs are complicated, you can just use Gmail. Inbox…

Does Gmail have email snoozing? It didn't when I switched to Inbox and I wouldn't want to use an email client without it now.

One way to achieve snoozing in any email client is to forward (and archive) the email to 1day@fut.io (or monday@fut.io etc, the syntax is pretty complete and flexible). They will send you back the email at the specified time and date, so it ends up back in your inbox. No GUI but pretty efficient in practice.

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Post by dvirsky »

2dvisio wrote: post #217
dvirsky wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope Google won't abandon Inbox and continue developing it, I'd really hate to go back to Gmail.

You could move to Spark (if Mac user)

I've never tried it. I'm moving between Mac and Linux so I need a web based client.

Re: Gmail Launches Add-ons

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Post by [deleted] »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #182
themacguffinman wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're missing the point of Inbox. It's not supposed to replace Gmail, not now and not ever. It's an additional way of using Gmail, hence why its full name is actually "Inbox by Gmail". Inbox is an attempt to make Gmail easier to use for the average user who has simple needs, so all the "power user" features you want aren't supposed to be in Inbox. If your needs are complicated, you can just use Gmail. Inbox…

Does Gmail have email snoozing? It didn't when I switched to Inbox and I wouldn't want to use an email client without it now.

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