Interesting... I like it, but it's entirely eclipsed by extensions like Google Mail Checker Plus[1], for me.
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gffjhibehnempbke...
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#22What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I think there are quite a few of us who have at least a thousand unread messages. I have all kind of git commit messages that show up in my inbox that I don't always mark as read, not to mention all the mailing lists I subscribe to that aren't all in filters....
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#23I've been using Better Gmail for Chrome to get this functionality: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gmfocnipihcoejdi...
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#24I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done. Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment? Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.
I use HTML based version (faster and less prone to JS glitches) and there's no gmail number in title.
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#25What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
I'm tidy. I don't have any. My wife on the other hand... I think you either have 0 or 10K+.
I don't know how people can withstand that. At 1k+ messages you might as well declare email bankruptcy and regain a meaningful counter.
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#26I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
Love the pin feature! Also note, anything you install via the web store can be configured to always open in a pinned tab by clicking on the little wrench when you hover over the app icon. For me it's Mail, Calendar and Grooveshark. Why would I ever close them?
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#27What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
In addition to my normal commit and mailing filters, I set up one filter called "Non-direct" that's effectively "something that's not addressed directly to me and doesn't fall under any other filter." That means that the only things that show up in my inbox are emails directly relevant to me.
It turns out I only get around 5 personal e-mails a day out of the 100+ I actually get. Which could be read either way :).
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#28I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
It used to be that you couldnt SOMETHING-w to close a pinned tab. If you did that, it would just gray out and when you clicked on it, it reopened in at the same location.
Now, it has to stay open, you can close w/o taking extra actions and it is always using memory for the full page.
I tell you all of this so hopefully you can imagine how much better it used to be and I can add you to the campaign to get the old behavior back.
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#29I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done. Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment? Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.
there's also a gmail lab's feature to turn the unread email count off
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have three accounts in the same window, I can switch which one I use currently by clicking on the email address. Two of them are Google Apps accounts, and one is a Gmail account.
It doesn't seem to work for me, I can only use my gmail accounts, those using custom domains don't have mail "enabled" but if I login to them alone they work fine. Maybe it's a problem at my end then!
When did you sign up for the google apps account? I've seen this issue with new google apps accounts because google now has all google app accounts also set up as a regular google account for other google services. For example - before if you had a google apps account for your business, but wanted to use a service like google voice - you had to sign in to google voice with a separate google account. Now Google Apps allows you to use your custom domain to sign into all google services. I've seen this conflict in setting up newer Google Apps accounts for customers because the Google Apps account is treated as traditional Google Account. I'm sure there has to be some sort of work around for this.