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I know they put in a lot of hard work on improving the product... But I wish that they would divert just a minuscule amount of that effort into changing the font to something other than Arial. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just pick "Segoe UI" or "Verdana" like everyone else.
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.
> The feature I use most in Inbox is the quick "mark done" which removes the mail from sight but allows searching for it later.
That sounds like the (ancient) Archive button..
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> 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.
I find it so strange that people don't find the bundling useful, because to me it's mind-boggling powerful. Being able to open a custom bundle of Git commits from yesterday, scan them, then archive them all in a single click is huge! Being able to click on a bundle created for my upcoming trip and see all my emails for that trip there (hotel, flights, etc...) is such a time saver. Then being able to snooze those bund…
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Supporting Gmail with it's allure and illusion of a "free" account is a rejection of personal freedom and tacit acceptance of malicious authoritarianism.
How would you go about deleting your entire Google account? Particularly if your personal Gmail address is associated w/ so many things, etc?
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At the bottom of the G Suite blog post: > The all-new Gmail experience is available for businesses to start using today in the G Suite Early Adopter Program (EAP) and can be turned on in the Admin console. [...] > Personal Gmail users can opt-in to the new experience, too (Go to Settings in the top right and select “Try the new Gmail.”).
Does anyone have an idea on how one can enroll in EAP? I couldn't find any setting or a link, but would really like to try it for our G-Suite.
In Google Admin
Apps > G Suite > Settings for Gmail > Advanced settings
...and then scroll down to :
New Gmail Early Adopter Program
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".
More appropriate solution is a smart compose feature - fix what your sending, not how they read it
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For Inbox, I remember switching, seeing the new tabs, saying "Meh, those are useless" and going back to the normal interfaces since.
Did you not figure out what was actually different about it? As far as I know Inbox bundles are a unique feature and one I could not do without.
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This is why I use specific apps for critical things in my life and very rarely change them (even though I regularly try alternatives, just to see if grass is greener on the other side!). For mail, Apple's Mail.app can't be beat: nothing else works as fast with my E-mail archive dating back to 1994. For programming, I still haven't found anything that beats Emacs. Using apps instead of letting Google read my mail solv…
> Apple's Mail.app can't be beat Uhm, I think there are some great 3rd party apps out there that are much more powerful. But I concur that an actual email client is the way to go, especially as soon as you have more than one address.
My #2 is Spark, which I actually use on iOS, but on Mac it's a bit too slow, plus it actually failed to send an E-mail without notifying me or returning the E-mail (I did report this as a bug), which I consider a showstopper. So Mail.app it is.
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Google add ons is a poor excuse for extending Gmails functionality. I tried to create a basic app a few months ago and it is extremely limited and feels very much beta. An example: extending compose functionality in any way is impossible. Add ons are limited to when the user opens an email, that's pretty much it. Try for yourself and see.
I built Streak's Gmail add-on (launch partner, and #1 add-on in the marketplace) so trust me when I say that I'm very aware of the platform's shortcomings :) If you want to do something fancy then I highly recommend using the InboxSDK (inboxsdk.com). But for basic functionality the add-ons are pretty sweet. Native mobile integration is huge, alongside massive a great distribution channel. Not sure if you've noticed i…
I will eventually monetize the app I build but won't go down the path of using Google's own addon platform. It will likely be InboxSDK as you point out.
The sad thing here is with InboxSDK being limited to Desktop but brilliantly feature rich, my adoption will be curved by desktop use only. I imagine businesses will be much more inclined to use Google's addon market place because the ease of deployment to users, rather than a Chrome extension etc.
How have your Enterprise users deployed your app to users?
I haven't noticed the + yet, I'll look out for this next time. Thanks for your suggestions.
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Then you reply and tell them that the feature doesn't work and send it to you in the standard way. Standards need to be enforced.
> send it to you in the standard way What standard is that exactly?