A rundown of the new Gmail • Hacker News Board

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by jessriedel » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 8:04 PM UTC

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #300

jessriedel wrote: post #299

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When snoozing with Inbox, did it allow you to type in a snooze time that would be interpreted intelligently (e.g., "8 hours" or "3pm May 5")? Or does Inbox only allow you to select from a predefined list of options ("tomorrow", "next week") or use their clunky date picker? Both Streak (a Gmail plugin) and FollowUpThen (an email forwarding service) allowed you to type basically anything, which was way faster.

Nope it doesn't have that - I can definitely imagine it being useful but their defaults are pretty good in my experience. They do have "snooze until day of event" which is quite nice for things like train tickets or meetup confirmations. And they have location-based snoozing which is occasionally handy. Sounds like a nicer way to do it though now you mention it!

Thanks for the info!

Yea, I think having good defaults and falling back to the date-picker interface (graphical calendar) is a good solution for mobile, but when I'm on a laptop with a keyboard it's way faster to just type.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by sundvor » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

portmanteaufu wrote: post #256

While I love the new functional features (Calendar view, snooze an email, add an email to your task list, etc.), the new UI has a lot of problems. First and foremost, the "Feedback" modal dialog is completely broken in Firefox. The menu loads but then immediately disappears. It blinks back into view intermittently every several seconds, but I can't see it long enough to populate the form they provide. They establishe…

With a nearly "zero inbox" (only a few mail items, not enough to fill the page), scrollbar is visible for me in Firefox, whilst neatly hidden in Chrome.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by andybak » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 8:13 AM UTC

gumami wrote: post #298

andybak wrote: post #296

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Inbox bundles are a revelation. I guess it's a shame Google failed to get the message out better.

I, for one, hated bundles. They didn't give me enough control. I'm glad they worked well for you.

The key feature is bundles _in the inbox_

Folders and filtering rules never worked for me because they gave me multiple "to do" lists. It's vital for managing complexity to have a single queue to work through. If you want to use your inbox for that - then traditional email clients fall short.

If something is filtered out of my inbox then I usually end up forgetting about it. If I can't group things in my inbox then it becomes overwhelming.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by Braxton_Hicks » Tue, May 01, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

blairbeckwith wrote: post #217

peatmoss wrote: post #213

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I recently moved my stuff to / paid a year of Fastmail. I gather Protonmail puts security features a bit more front-and-center. How about the UX? Can anyone comment on how they like the over all experience of Protonmail as compared to Fastmail? I realize I could sign up a Protonmail account and compare, but I’m not sure I’d get a good picture of the service through casual use. I like Fastmail quite a lot so far, but…

Lack of POP/IMAP is a big, major con. You're forced to use their web or native interfaces. They don't make this super obvious outside of an FAQ on their site. I signed up and then found out. I wonder how much churn that causes them.

Do you have a link to where you read that?