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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by __sr__ »

noja wrote: post #117
klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Trips was the killer feature. I hope they port it. The ability to collect all my related information (a particular trip for example) into a single view was genius.

Try Google Trips

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Post by redbonsai »

giggsey wrote: post #61

Does Gmail have any features like Inbox's groupings for Trips? I have a lot of emails grouped together into a Trip, which Inbox helpfully shows a card summary for (including flights and reservations).

Trips is by far my most used feature -- I'm really going to miss that too!

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by fori1to10 »

klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Most of these things are available in the new Gmail interface.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by yingw787 »

I really like Inbox reminders and the smart addressee option when pressing the "Compose" button. I use reminders when I'm offline to save notes to myself. If I use my Google Home, then the reminders also show up in Inbox. I really liked how reminders and this part of the Google ecosystem integrated with my lifestyle routines. I guess I could switch to Todoist or roll my own thing, but it won't be the same.

Needless to say I'm miffed by this news. It tells me it's dangerous to love Google products no matter how great they are, because one day they'll be taken away.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by paupino_masano »

noja wrote: post #117
klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Trips was the killer feature. I hope they port it. The ability to collect all my related information (a particular trip for example) into a single view was genius.

From a different perspective, Trips was surprisingly annoying for me! I had a team we're I'd need to approve other people's trips which would automatically show up as my own in calendar etc. This was especially annoying when our trips would overlap to the same destination. Unfortunately, it didn't have an easy way to mark what was my trip and what wasn't in any sort of repeatable fashion.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by ulfw »

coldtea wrote: post #54
ihatethem wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib". Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in. Besides you're making it sound like there was some huge cost involved in adopting or in abandoning Inbox, which there isn't.

> Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation What was "obvious" about it? Here's how Google introduced it: "Inbox by Gmail is a new app from the Gmail team. Inbox is an organized place to get things done and get back to what matters. Bundles keep emails organized." Do you see anything about it being an "experiment" to eventually throw away? Not to mention Gmail already had the Labs feature fo…

I couldn't have said it better myself! They tried to sell it as the possible evolution of Gmail. Not some 'experiment' that would partially flow into the Gmail they asked us to abandon for Inbox in the first place.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by politelemon »

klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Reminders also worked with hyperlinks and on Android you can share links with Inbox, saving it for later. Nifty feature and a great way of quickly transferring a link between multiple devices.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by j88439h84 »

kingnothing wrote: post #106
andybak wrote: post #64

> 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…

Snooze is the main reason I've been using Inbox.

That's in gmail now.
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