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Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by Twisol »

johndbritton wrote: post #9

I've been doing this sort of thing ever since they introduced the Multiple Inboxes lab feature. It wasn't Gmail's logic, it was my own in a series of complex filters. Here's a screen grab from February 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndbritton/3257013239/sizes/o...

I just use a couple extra tags and filter certain messages to them, archiving them immediately. I only have this for my mailing lists right now, though.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by spicyj »

davidw wrote: post #30
rsingel wrote: post #17

Having tested this the last few days, I would raise a rebel army if Google tried to take it away.

Gmail is starting to remind me more and more why I like free software so much: I want the ability to hack it to do what I want. The feature I'm desperate for is to have it use specific email addresses with specific people: dedasys.com for most correspondence, gmail with family, maybe hecl.org for that mailing list, and so on. Sure you can change it manually, but it's a pain in the neck. The reason I don't run my own…

I'm not sure if this is identical to Gmail's filtering, but Google has SaaS spam filtering:

http://www.google.com/postini/email.html

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by petercooper »

I've had a similar feature (without the training part) in GMail for a while now. GMail Labs has a feature called something like "Multi Inbox". It shows other searches/labels of your choice on the front page. I set it up to show Drafts, Starred and a "To Do" label and have been running a system much like this shows, just prioritizing stuff on the fly. Given you can see drafts and such stuff, this might even be a better alternative for some.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by aresant »

This is a BRILLIANT feature that I hope stimulates somebody on HN to build around Outlook.

GMAIL hovers around 5% of email client usage.

Outlook still owns somewhere between 35 - 43%.

MSFT was moving in this direction and had a decent solution out a few years back called Email Prioritizer.

Of course, they tossed before it made it out of labs.

Xobni is too complex IMO, what's so compelling about Google's system is how simple it is - it just works, it fits right in. Nice job.

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/emailprioritizer/Pages/De...

http://visibleranking.com/2010/05/most-popular-email-clients...

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by DrewHintz »

tremendo wrote: post #25

Anybody else got the auto-playing music? For a while couldn't figure out where it was coming from, then I saw the red sign for the new Priority Inbox and at first selected "No thanks" but that did nothing, and not until I accepted to turn it on did the music stop. A bug? or some Google's programmer idea of being "helpful" or "funny"? I did not appreciate it.

What browser are you using?

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by barmstrong »

aresant wrote: post #36

This is a BRILLIANT feature that I hope stimulates somebody on HN to build around Outlook. GMAIL hovers around 5% of email client usage. Outlook still owns somewhere between 35 - 43%. MSFT was moving in this direction and had a decent solution out a few years back called Email Prioritizer. Of course, they tossed before it made it out of labs. Xobni is too complex IMO, what's so compelling about Google's system is how…

Yep - their implementation looks great (at least at first glance).

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by barmstrong »

tremendo wrote: post #25

Anybody else got the auto-playing music? For a while couldn't figure out where it was coming from, then I saw the red sign for the new Priority Inbox and at first selected "No thanks" but that did nothing, and not until I accepted to turn it on did the music stop. A bug? or some Google's programmer idea of being "helpful" or "funny"? I did not appreciate it.

Yep I encountered it too (using Chrome on mac). Looks like it was a bug. Pretty funny though. There is probably some programmer getting seriously heckled right now in a late night hackathon over at Google. Wonder if they've broken out the drinks yet.
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