That's unfortunate. I really liked Inbox (other than the horrible performance)
Google is discontinuing Inbox
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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going to the video tape: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for... Three things are highlighted: Extraction of info from items and display (now in gmail) Bundles (some made it into gmail) Reminders, assists, and Snooze (now mostly in gmail) So i'm not sure i'd agree with you here, but i definitely would agree that of the big three, bundling made it in the least :)
How can I get bundles in Gmail? Am I missing something?
Settings -> Inbox -> Categories is analogous, although IMO the UI isn't as nice. I also don't know if that lets you do custom bundles, although that's a feature I never used in Inbox.
Edit: and the gmail version of bundles has fewer categories than Inbox does
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#93I don't understand Google here. Clearly Gmail is not the final word about email user interface, and Inbox was a very promising first step. I can understand, if Inbox did not receive enough attention, to start moving Inbox to different directions, but how is it possible that Google has no space for a permanent alternative UI testing project?
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#94I like the search capability of inbox - it always was better than gmail.
It had it quirks due to "designed to focus on what really matters." - actually meaning: "we'll ignore what you want and need and do it the way we think you need".
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#95These are really unfortunate news! :(
My stress level just went up after opening gmail.com after few years since I switched to Inbox.
Being used to just swiping emails that I didn't need to attend, I didn't realize they were still in "unread" status.
Now when I opened Gmail, I see:
Social 190
Updates 4,856
Forums 3,329
Promotions 4,214
And.. we cannot Pin emails in Gmail the same way as in Inbox :( [I have already read the "Pin emails" section in https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/9117840, but starring/labeling/searching doesn't give the convenience that Inbox pinning did.]
I'll also miss all the rich email rendering of emails like shipping tracking, flight tickets, appointments, etc.
Alas..
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Update: And of course Google would discontinue Inbox. Inbox did not have ads, but Gmail has freaking ads!
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#96It's really interesting to see the super-knee jerk reaction here when the article itself even says that most of the features made their way into gmail. (I was a heavy inbox user, and i am happy with the stuff that made it's way into gmail). Outside of some of the bundling features, i'm curious what actual difference people are complaining about here.
I get a ton of email and Inbox does a good job of popping a notification for only the truly important ones. Regular Gmail has the "important" flag which you can train but I get the sense it's not using the same signals or the same algo.
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#97> Outside of some of the bundling features Bundling (in the inbox) is THE reason for using Inbox. It's the only unique feature. It's the thing that changed how I use email. If I use folders it's the kiss of death for any email that a rule sends to that folder. I want a single list but with some items collapsed. Email went from unthreaded to threaded (reducing the complexity massively. Bundles takes that one step furt…
Looks like this was meant to be in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971740
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#98Google's ADHD with products strikes again. It's really hard to get excited over new Google offerings because they just go away when Google gets bored of them, time and time again.
It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale.
I wonder what scale would have been enough. According to the play store it has over 10 million installs
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#99> Outside of some of the bundling features Bundling (in the inbox) is THE reason for using Inbox. It's the only unique feature. It's the thing that changed how I use email. If I use folders it's the kiss of death for any email that a rule sends to that folder. I want a single list but with some items collapsed. Email went from unthreaded to threaded (reducing the complexity massively. Bundles takes that one step furt…
Same thing here !!
I don't want to go back to gmail, now it looks like a complete mess compared to Inbox.
Should I start writing a replacement client ? :///
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#100That's the problem with Google latest-and-greatest offerings - they roll it out, make a hype, if you're naive enough you start using it, integrate it in your workflow - and they they decide it's not what they wanted and throw it out, and you have to re-do your workflow again.
I just switched to using desktop mail client and going to web UI only occasionally - at least desktop client is not likely to go away when Google gets bored with it.