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Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by roesel »

dirtylowprofile wrote: post #148
roesel wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let alone that the app is abysmally slow on an iPhone 5s. Even if your inbox (not "done" emails) features 7 emails and 3 new emails come in, the app doesn't even fetch them fully and loads them one-at-a-time upon opening. And the inbox.google.com web interface does the exact same thing! It also gets stuck for several seconds when pressing "done" on a lone email in a group, showing an empty group for a while until it…

You can try Airmail or Edison Mail for iOS. I find it much appealing than Gmail app

Neither seems to have a web version (or a desktop version for windows), so if I were to switch, I would still revert to Gmail on desktop. Or am I looking them up wrong?

Edit: also, do either of them enable the "tasks" between emails?

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by mattkrause »

gk1 wrote: post #215
pmontra wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with GMail, which I don't use, but sometimes I open a site again instead of looking for it in the windows and tabs I leave open forever (32 GB RAM help). It happens with Google Drive and Docs. Maybe the OP also keeps many tabs open.

If you have so many tabs open that you forget what you have open and start opening new tabs of the same site, then you should have fewer tabs open. This reminds me of the joke where, upon realizing that normal pens don’t work in space, the US spent millions of dollars developing a “space pen” that will work in zero-gravity, while Russia just decided to use pencils.

That pen thing would be a great anecdote....if it were true.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by kemonocode »

pferde wrote: post #19

"Finally, a new confidential mode allows you to remove the option to forward, copy, download or print messages—useful for when you have to send sensitive information via email like a tax return or your social security number. You can also make a message expire after a set period of time to help you stay in control of your information." No, thanks. I like my e-mail archive under my own control.

I find this a rather dangerous precedent. At best, it's an incompatible extension over what would be standard email and it further expands Google's walled garden, and at worst it sets up a false expectation of security, ending up as little as snake oil and possibly setting up people to dangerous situations. Nothing hints at messages being PGP encrypted (Or being encrypted, period. "Recipient verification" just looks to me like a way to get an acknowledgment of receipt) or even how Google disposes of "expired" messages.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by mantas »

gk1 wrote: post #215
pmontra wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with GMail, which I don't use, but sometimes I open a site again instead of looking for it in the windows and tabs I leave open forever (32 GB RAM help). It happens with Google Drive and Docs. Maybe the OP also keeps many tabs open.

If you have so many tabs open that you forget what you have open and start opening new tabs of the same site, then you should have fewer tabs open. This reminds me of the joke where, upon realizing that normal pens don’t work in space, the US spent millions of dollars developing a “space pen” that will work in zero-gravity, while Russia just decided to use pencils.

.. then Russians learned pencil breaking off in space ain't good and bought same American pens :)

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by tambre »

bo1024 wrote: post #194
nextweek2 wrote: post #25

What I really want is a the Smart Reply feature to point out to the user that more than one question was asked of them. It's so boring to ask two questions and get a reply to one or ask someone to choose one of two options and they reply with "Yes, go ahead".

Not sure I'd blame the client for people not reading their emails...

Why do you think they were blaming the client? They simply expressed the desire for a feature to help remedy a problem caused by humans.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by tambre »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #181
fuzzy2 wrote: post #59

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Yes, it’s incredible how just the preview images of “related articles” are over 13 MiB in size. That’s pretty dumb. As is using GIFs instead of actual videos. It’s 2018, damnit.

Google shot themselves in the foot there though - autoplay videos are / can be disabled, but with gifs that's a bit more difficult and / or gifs are a way to force people to get exposed to videos.

Maybe they could change Chrome to allow autoplay videos, which have no audio? Would make them very much functionally equivalent to GIFs.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by lmm »

mattkrause wrote: post #222
gk1 wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have so many tabs open that you forget what you have open and start opening new tabs of the same site, then you should have fewer tabs open. This reminds me of the joke where, upon realizing that normal pens don’t work in space, the US spent millions of dollars developing a “space pen” that will work in zero-gravity, while Russia just decided to use pencils.

That pen thing would be a great anecdote....if it were true.

It's substantially true. The pen was developed by a private company rather than the government, but "the US spent" is fair if we consider it to refer to the country as a whole. Using pencils in space did cause genuine issues, but the Russian space programme did live with those issues until the space pen was developed.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by 1123581321 »

chx wrote: post #201
steeve wrote: post #4

It looks like the good things of Inbox are now in Gmail. That would explain the lack of updates on the Inbox iOS App (which still doesn't have proper iPhone X support)?

> It looks like the good things of Inbox are now in Gmail. The feature I use most in Inbox is the quick "mark done" which removes the mail from sight but allows searching for it later. The automatic bundling is not bad but not terribly useful.

Try making some custom bundles. I group all my industry pubs into one bundle that doesn’t appear in my inbox until 7am the best day. I usually scan the subjects and hit E to archive. Huge time-saver.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by squeaky-clean »

gk1 wrote: post #215
pmontra wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with GMail, which I don't use, but sometimes I open a site again instead of looking for it in the windows and tabs I leave open forever (32 GB RAM help). It happens with Google Drive and Docs. Maybe the OP also keeps many tabs open.

If you have so many tabs open that you forget what you have open and start opening new tabs of the same site, then you should have fewer tabs open. This reminds me of the joke where, upon realizing that normal pens don’t work in space, the US spent millions of dollars developing a “space pen” that will work in zero-gravity, while Russia just decided to use pencils.

Graphite from pencils breaks into small splinters that fly around in zero-g and short out equipment.

Sometimes I write and review a long email in one tab over the course of an hour or so while still responding to shorter emails in another tab. Just yesterday I had to out together a small report with some log examples and network graphs.

So there's 2 tabs open. Sometimes I'll also have older emails open to refer back to them. Easily brings that to 3, 4, 5 tabs.

It also doesn't properly update the mobile app or notifications, and I have one coworker who shows up as a different name whether I'm using the desktop or mobile app.

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