Time to start an open source version of Inbox? -> https://codepen.io/simoberny/pen/bdvMyj
Google is discontinuing Inbox
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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#382This 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 archiv…
Threading in email clients has been around for decades. Actually I must check if there are mobile versions of mutt or elm.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#383> 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…
Edison Mail has this and most features are talking about in here
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#384> 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…
I hate bundling.
They pushed it for all the github emails, and I had to unbundle them, separately for each github repo, super annoyingn.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#385I'm sure I'm repeating voices here, but I'm really sad. And the article also mentions Mailbox too which I used before and moved to Inbox because it had a similar interface/structure. I love grouped archive/delete, I love pins, I love snooze. Inbox, I feel, is the only sane way to do email.
I don't know whether I want to even adopt a new product again, from anyone, and integrate it into my workflow. I've had Astrid (to Yahoo(?)), Sunshine Calendar (to Microsoft), Mailbox (to DropBox) gone and now it's Inbox.
Maybe it is time to vote (and ask devs/companies to enable us to) with our wallets. I have Todoist and trying out Notion, I really hope they don't roll over soon.
Now I kinda understand people who want to roll their own tools for everything.. You don't become dependent on others for what is important to you.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#386Inbox 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.
I've used Trips for years without Inbox. It's an app you can download on the app store/play store and it still automatically creates trips based on your Gmail inbox
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#387Inbox 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…
So many people say trips was the killer feature - but for me, that was just cool. Snoozing emails to inbox zero. That was my entire system.
Do it now, or when am I most likely to be able to do it?
Cognitive load is a real problem, why would anyone want to see an email that they can do nothing about, above one they can deal with now - and if you just put it in a folder... you have to check that yourself. That's ridiculous. It should remind you - say I'm waiting on package tomorrow before I reply - I shouldn't see the email, or think about it until after the package comes tomorrow. I certainly shoudn't need to remember to look through a custom list, in order to see it.
Google literally revolutionised email, and are now deprecating it - when half the problem was that they rolled it out in a separate and confusing way... Please bring snoozing to Gmail ASAP or I will be so sad.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 archiv…
Threading in email clients has been around for decades. Actually I must check if there are mobile versions of mutt or elm.
And they thread properly. Unlike Gmail's bastardised 'We munge your subjects and think these are related'.
I considered implementing the Mutt threading algorithm in a browser extension for GMail. It's one of those "If I ever have less to do, I'll give it a shot" ideas that will never get done :)
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#389Inbox 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…
So many people say trips was the killer feature - but for me, that was just cool. Snoozing emails to inbox zero. That was my entire system. Do it now, or when am I most likely to be able to do it? Cognitive load is a real problem, why would anyone want to see an email that they can do nothing about, above one they can deal with now - and if you just put it in a folder... you have to check that yourself. That's ridicu…
Ahh I misunderstood. My work instance of gmail is still the old interface. It's so awful to look at after using inbox.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
So many people say trips was the killer feature - but for me, that was just cool. Snoozing emails to inbox zero. That was my entire system. Do it now, or when am I most likely to be able to do it? Cognitive load is a real problem, why would anyone want to see an email that they can do nothing about, above one they can deal with now - and if you just put it in a folder... you have to check that yourself. That's ridicu…
Ahh I misunderstood. My work instance of gmail is still the old interface. It's so awful to look at after using inbox.
OK I found the upgrade button in the work app. I don't like the gmail interface as much - but it's better than I expected.