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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by jillesvangurp »

kkarakk wrote: post #371
jillesvangurp wrote: post #211

I think this choice may be partially inspired by the fact that lots of people never switched to Inbox and people like myself actually switched back at some point. For me pinning UX kind of sucked and I really missed the Gmail density of information. What's sad is that Inbox stopped evolving almost immediately after they released it. This seems to be a thing at Google. Release something, hype it, and then just walk aw…

if there was infighting atleast we(the users) would hear about it. google just seems to encourage people to move past the things they've made instead of innovating on it so we(as users) never hear anything until a project is killed off.

I've been in big companies, this has infighting written all over it. Two competing teams, one gets shut down. Classic stuff. Usually means two separate business units with competing middle management fighting over resources. One of them won. My guess is this happened quite some time ago and most of the team was reassigned years ago already.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by sammorrowdrums »

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…

Lots of features are possible in the new gmail, but everything is nested in a menu! On the android app you swipe left or right to archive an email (instead of the inbox one way to snooze, one way to archive), and you actually have to open an email, and then click a sub-menu to snooze it!

Even adapting my workflow to the new tools, everything is nested - like you want a note in keep, or a task in tasks (and deciding between the two is not always obvious) - that requires you to go into a sub-menu / sidebar... the UX is so complex, it's really a struggle to be efficient so far.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by m-localhost »

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…

Maybe Superhuman is opening to the public by then? It sounds promising.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/rapportive-founders-new-st...

https://superhuman.com/

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by bpye »

Yikes. I loved Inbox and was using it until a couple months ago. I moved to FastMail because I wanted to host my email with another provider. I certainly won't be going back to Google now.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by Guillaume86 »

I'm another one of the disappointed long time users. Just tried Gmail again and the UI/UX is not yet there, the ads in the app is also a big downgrade...

I also loved to use "save to inbox" feature (creating reminders from outside). It is a share option on android so accessible from pretty much anywhere and on PC I used the Inbox extension on chrome that has the same feature to save the current page.

Now for the future... I'm probably dreaming but I wish the snooze/done paradigm would be provided by a stand-alone service and available system wide and in the cloud (with an open API). We should be able to "snooze" anything (a watsapp message, a sms, a web page) and select a date/location/device that will wake it again. Bundling could also be provided by the same service...

Edit: that service should of course also replace the several tasks/reminders services and apps that google has created these last years.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Guillaume86 wrote: post #406

I'm another one of the disappointed long time users. Just tried Gmail again and the UI/UX is not yet there, the ads in the app is also a big downgrade... I also loved to use "save to inbox" feature (creating reminders from outside). It is a share option on android so accessible from pretty much anywhere and on PC I used the Inbox extension on chrome that has the same feature to save the current page. Now for the futu…

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by inawarminister »

noja wrote: post #169
__sr__ wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.).

Don't you can just forward your booking/flight ticket emails to trip it? I don't think you have dob in those type of emails?

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by jasonvorhe »

I really don't get the problem here. Google's intentions for Inbox were always clear in that it was an experiment to see where mail could be headed and where they could try things that may find their way into Gmail. That's what they have done. Lots of features are now in Gmail. Now Inbox is being put to rest with about half a year of a retirement announcement in advance.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by konschubert »

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…

Is there another way how to organise reminders in the inbox.
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