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Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by sinofer »

vidarh wrote: post #72
bretthopper wrote: post #36

These comments are pretty sad. I know we feel the need to comment on everything right away these days, but honestly there isn't much to say about this feature until we've actually used it. HN almost universally believes in execution over the idea, yet here we are trashing an idea before seeing the execution. It's great that Gmail is trying to innovate and improve the email experience. Maybe this feature won't work ou…

Given how obnoxious the new compose it, it is getting hard to trust them to do the right thing with Gmail.

Opinions can vary. I love the new compose.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by baby »

wyck wrote: post #122
adastra wrote: post #79

Disaster. 1) I just turned it on, and it is not customizable at all . You cannot create custom tabs, and you can't even pick what goes into the tabs they have created. 2) When you turn it on, it disables Gmail's multiple inbox. Multiple inbox is the only thing saving my email from being a complete and utter disaster right now. 3) Judging by how they are forcing the new compose on everyone it is reasonable to expect t…

I hate the new compose. I think the mail UI team need to make a poster that says. "If it's not broken, don't fix it"

You mean the compose that pops up and doesn't open in a new page? 100% agree.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by Karunamon »

dannyr wrote: post #55

"If the new inbox isn't quite your style, you can simply switch off all optional tabs to go back to classic view, or switch to any of your other favorite inbox types." If this new Gmail feature doesn't suit you, you can TURN IT OFF.

Problem is, if it's anything like usual Google features, it follows a common path:

New feature announced --> Deployed to @gmail users -- Deployed to Apps users --> Old feature deprecated --> old feature removed

Google has a feature of eventually forcing people onto bad UI layouts.. for example Youtube.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by Timothee »

Osmium wrote: post #112
Timothee wrote: post #40

I find all these new email products (Sparrow, Mailbox, etc.) interesting on a UI/UX level but they're highly irrelevant to me. I always read about how hard it has become to manage one's inbox, but I really don't have a problem with it. My system is simple: do not sign-up for newsletter or notifications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, etc.) you won't read, unsubscribe anytime you realize you don't read the ones you r…

How about those newsletters you're happy to read occasionally, but you don't want to interrupt you with notifications etc.? I've got into the habit of marking all email with "unsubscribe" in it as read by default. I'll still see it when I open up my inbox, but it avoids me ever seeing a notification for something useless.

I don't really have any newsletter that fits this. But I'd do what Ives is saying and use filters to put them out of the way.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by baby »

hamburglar wrote: post #117
Timothee wrote: post #40

I find all these new email products (Sparrow, Mailbox, etc.) interesting on a UI/UX level but they're highly irrelevant to me. I always read about how hard it has become to manage one's inbox, but I really don't have a problem with it. My system is simple: do not sign-up for newsletter or notifications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, etc.) you won't read, unsubscribe anytime you realize you don't read the ones you r…

Out of curiosity, what do you do when you run into an OSS project which requires you to subscribe to a mailing list in order to ask a question? I find the friction of this high enough that I end up staying subscribed forever (and filtering the mail) rather than unsubscribing and possibly having to resubscribe later. I'm glad gmail doesn't have a quota for email bandwidth...

I always use a temporary mail address : http://jetable.org/en/index

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by travisp »

ksixmju wrote: post #124

So this is for Gmail users that can be bothered to figure out how filters and labels work?

I'm a heavy user of filters and labels, but I've fallen in love with Gmail's smart labels, which seems to be the early beta version of this.

Creating and managing more and more filters for every single new sender of email gets to be a pain. Every time a new one comes in, you have to go through multiple steps to create one, and then if you unsubscribe, you have to remember to remove the filter, if you don't want your filter list to just get unmanageable.

I find the smart labels do a pretty good job of capturing the main categories I want filtered into particular labels and hidden from my main inbox -- without any extra effort on my part. In my mind, anything that works well and saves me from tedious work is well worth it.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by baby »

gardarh wrote: post #85

Looking at my girlfriend's gmail Inbox makes my eyes bleed, it's a mishmash of seemingly irrelevant email, lots of promos or facebook notifications more than half of which is unread. I sometimes find it hard to control myself not to "clean it up". This seems like a perfect addition for her... as for me, I've already setup my filters and am already happy with gmail as is; I don't think this will interfere with that. S…

I use filters, labels and important extensively but I still get flooded by mails (receive like a hundred spam everyday).

I don't know what to do anymore. I'm expecting a lot from this new gmail UI

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by Timothee »

hamburglar wrote: post #117
Timothee wrote: post #40

I find all these new email products (Sparrow, Mailbox, etc.) interesting on a UI/UX level but they're highly irrelevant to me. I always read about how hard it has become to manage one's inbox, but I really don't have a problem with it. My system is simple: do not sign-up for newsletter or notifications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, etc.) you won't read, unsubscribe anytime you realize you don't read the ones you r…

Out of curiosity, what do you do when you run into an OSS project which requires you to subscribe to a mailing list in order to ask a question? I find the friction of this high enough that I end up staying subscribed forever (and filtering the mail) rather than unsubscribing and possibly having to resubscribe later. I'm glad gmail doesn't have a quota for email bandwidth...

I haven't had the problem, but the mailing-lists I've come across are more often than not ran on mailing-list systems that let me pick the emails I want to receive (e.g. Google Groups). I typically go for none or just replies to my own posts. If I want to see what's up I check the site.

But if your filter archives, labels and marks as read the emails, you're fine because your inbox is cleared of them but you still have the ability to check the activity.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by kevinwmerritt »

A feature that I wish Gmail would copy from Outlook.com is the ability to auto delete emails after a certain time. I have all email tagged with the intelligent Social updates category delete after three days.

I use Gmail and Outlook to manage different email accounts. The Outlook.com inbox has smart categories which are similar to these new Gmail categories/tabs. Instead of tabs across the top like Gmail, Outlook.com has Quick Views on the left hand side which activate the category filter.

Hopefully Gmail will allow you to customize what is filtered by their smart categories like Outlook.com does today.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by jpdoctor »

I assume this is about getting Google Promotions better airtime in people's inboxes.

One more reason to remove the google flow from your critical path. We always knew there was going to be a time that they needed to please shareholders over users, and that time has come.

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