Man, I just tried out gmail and the UI is so bloated and slow. C'mon google, don't bullshit us that "gmail" is equivalent. It's not about what it can do, it's how it does it.
Google is discontinuing Inbox
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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They're simply an unreliable company I don't think it's intentional, but it's a side-effect of Google's bonus structure[1]. There's more money to be made (by employees) if their team successfully launches a new product. Maintaining existing products isn't as profitable, in fact, launching and deprecating popular products as frequently as possible is the optimal scenario for maximizing bonuses. 1. From the informati…
Promotion Driven Development
The term used by Googlers is embarrassingly similar, "Perf driven development".
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#283Sad to see this here, but if anyone is interested in a new tool with some of the features of Inbox (snoozing, pinning and more to come), we're building Monolist ( https://monolist.co ). Monolist integrates directly into the tools you use and surfaces things that you can act on inline in the app (missed Slack mentions, Asana tasks, Calendar invites etc.). We're actually working on a GMail integration right now and wou…
My biggest thing that I am kind of panicking that I'm going to lose is the ability to batch groups of emails into bundles and deliver them at given times of the day.
For example, all "purchase" emails (emails like shipping updates, receipts, etc...) are automatically hidden whenever they come in, and are delivered under one bundle at 9am for me, and they will send notifications to my devices and show up right in front of me at that time.
This is very different than something like Gmail tabs, because they are fully out of sight and out of mind until they "arrive" that morning.
And that feature is the killer feature for me. Imagine if your physical mail was delivered to your door tens or hundreds of times a day? That's how I feel about normal email clients.
And after getting used to this way of working, I have this vacuum that I desperately want filled with just not email, but all notifications on all platforms.
Id love to queue up all Reddit messages until after my workday, bundle most Twitter notifications until one specific time every day, get a notification from slack at 4:45 and "snooze" it to show up like new tomorrow morning at 9 AM.
Snoozing notifications individually isn't a replacement, the ability to choose to snooze automatically to the next key time was huge. Putting them in tabs hidden from the "main" view isn't a replacement, I won't remember to check that tab unless I'm in my email and have time to do it (and remember to).
Inbox changed how I deal with interruptions, it changed what I want from a phone, it helped me stop my FOMO in a lot of areas, and kept me from forgetting to answer emails and do tasks because I would forget to check a task list or something.
I know I'm only one person, and I still haven't clicked on your pink and checked it out (I plan to right after this), but I would very much pay good money for software that can enable this workflow again, especially if it works for more than just emails and reminders.
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#284I don't mean to throw out the same old "you can't get attached to Google products because they kill them at any time" thing, but holy shit, this one feels like a real kick in the balls. Email is one of my most important workflows and I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years attaching myself to the zero inbox mindset through the bundles feature and having my reminders as first class citizens in the inbo…
I never even tried Inbox because I didn't trust that it wouldn't get killed. Ironically I was just thinking about finally giving it a try since it survived longer than I expected.
You've won this round...
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#285Took me the better part of an hour to find snooze in the Android Gmail app. It wouldn't appear until after I visited gmail.com in a full browser. That is a royal clustermess. I'm usually not annoyed by vendors changing their stuff. Super annoying to have to give up the blue app.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted: search, email, ads (which is search, really). [edit] oh, and maps!
Google Docs? Calendar? Groups? YouTube? Plus Android and Chrome, of course.
Search.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#287This is really unfortunate. Inbox's primary differentiator was never in any one individual feature like Snooze or Smart Reply. No, the real value of Inbox was that its design was built around a fundamentally different philosophy on what email is and how it should be managed. Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, del…
> Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, delete them, or just leave them in your inbox forever.
Not that long ago, gmail was a radically new way to deal with email.
1) aggregating emails from a single conversation in your inbox - yes, on the old days, every incoming email was a line in your inbox.
2) providing archive functionality - no need to organise and file your old emails, just click archive and use the search later if you find you'll need them
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#288What's the point of adopting Google products if most end up being canned? I love that they're willing to release cool new products but it's almost like a bunch of children who quickly move on to another set of toys
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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
Love tripit- the best feature is the calendar feed, I don’t even use the app or website because all of my travel details are always in my calendar.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#290Dear user of product 'X' that you've come to depend on for your daily workflow and that you are completely happy with. To serve you better we have decided to kill of 'X' and force you into 'Y' which does some of 'X' but worse and will kill your workflow for the next couple of months, and will give you a lot of extra work to do besides. Of course 'Y' does not look the same - nor does it act the same - as 'X' but we are super excited to have an opportunity to force some change on you, the user, just because we value you so much and we really would never make a change like this as a way to cut costs. Best regards, your ever caring and loving supplier.