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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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I think it’s iOS/Android only — which is a pity because a lot of people still prefer a laptop/desktop — although it works well enough for me. https://get.google.com/trips/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-trips-plan-your-trip/... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

If I can't access my trips from my pc, it's as good as dead for me.

See my comment about Tripit — and there are other alternatives I haven’t tried.

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Alternatively, you can try Tripit[1] which has more features, but there is definitely more friction involved as you either need to grant access to your email account or manually forward emails. [1] https://www.tripit.com

I don't know if its just me, but TripIt feels like a polished iPhone app that was begrudgingly ported to Android. That being said, I'm on Android and do use it to manage all my trip data. Prior to that, I was using various versions of Worldmate.

WorldMate was nice. Another nice alternative — at least as far as apps go — is TripCase.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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This is so bad for my productivity. I will be missing: - Reminders (with the ability to snooze them) - Inbox bundling for promo, social, trips etc. - Pinning and archiving everything that is not pinned - Android 'Add reminder' widget Any ideas on how to replace these are welcome

A few months ago, I realized how important reminders had become to me. Knowing that Inbox might disappear someday, I switched to Todoist and began adding all new reminders (tasks) there. Apart from the lack of integration with Inbox (which is now a moot point), it is a straight upgrade. * You can still sync reminders to your Google Calendar (tasks appear as events on the date they are due). Edits made in the calendar…

Google calendar has reminders baked in - does todoist leverage those? Or are items just "events?"

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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This is so bad for my productivity. I will be missing: - Reminders (with the ability to snooze them) - Inbox bundling for promo, social, trips etc. - Pinning and archiving everything that is not pinned - Android 'Add reminder' widget Any ideas on how to replace these are welcome

some ideas - regular gmail now has snooze too - reminders can be set in google cal (at least on mobile) and in assistant and from search box

Unfortunately Google assistant doesn't use Google keep for shopping list, so it's unusable for me. I have to use the uh... "Google now"... thing...

Fuck me if I can keep track of Google product names.

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I agree. I maintained a pretty clean inbox without 10s of rules. And as you said, never forgot to reply. I actually checked even my promo emails because I had them appear only once a day and I can delete them all in one click after reading them. Google keeps taking away the good products instead of figuring out how to get wider acceptance. Inbox definitely had a learning curve but it was worth it. If anyone has a goo…

Dealing with promo emails is one thing I'll miss the most, especially pinning the 1 or 2 you might want to keep and then sweeping the rest with 1 click. On desktop gmail you can reproduce this functionality by starring messages you want to keep and then bulk selecting using the "unstarred" option. The ios gmail app does not have any good answer to this, though. You have to select each email one by one and then delete…

> The ios gmail app does not have any good answer to this, though. You have to select each email one by one and then delete/archive.

This is what kills me about the iOS GMail app compared to Inbox. This feature needs to be ported to GMail before Inbox is gone.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Wow! I haven’t used regular Gmail in years! It will be a pain to switch back. The whole bundling, scheduling, snoozing, pinning, reminders etc are really useful. But then it’s Google. The key people probably got bored and moved on and perhaps no one else is willing to take it up. At least they didn’t make 10 different email products like they did with IM. Any suggestions for alternative email clients for iOS/Android…

I recently switched back to Gmail from Inbox (before this announcement) and was pleasantly surprised that most of the features from Inbox were there. I barely had to change my workflow.

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If I can't access my trips from my pc, it's as good as dead for me.

See my comment about Tripit — and there are other alternatives I haven’t tried.

But then I have another company knowing my personal information (dob, etc. etc.).

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Keep is really handy.

Keep is the next app that I expect to get axed. It's amazing and hugely useful and, crucially, nobody ever talks about it - just like Inbox. Perfectly positioned to be killed.

The tie in to assistant, used as a shopping list, was already axed for some garbage online-only thing that can't even reorder items.
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