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Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by moskie »

SEMW wrote: post #113
moskie wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It comes off as something being masked as a "feature," when in actuality it is just something that is trying to get me to spend money. It seems like it blurs the line between the "content" of my inbox and advertising.

> it blurs the line between the "content" of my inbox and advertising Yeah. They used to automatically file non-spam promotional emails into a separate folder where you could safely ignore them, but now they just go into your regular inbox! Money-grabbing so and so's. (...is what you'd be saying if this feature were being eliminated rather than introduced...)

I'm sorry, but this blog post is suggesting I should have a big shiny button at the top of my email inbox that will show me "Promotions" from Google Offers and Zagat (also owned by Google). That rubs me the wrong way.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by Timothee »

medell wrote: post #108
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…

Good advice for zero inbox, unfortunately most people aren't this organized and don't think this way and it seems like Google wants Gmail to benefit the most people.

Absolutely. I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, or that it's bad or anything like that. New email interfaces is just one of these things that has never been really useful to me. I tried Mailbox for a bit but it's solving a problem I don't have. This new feature seem as well.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by piyush_soni »

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.

Just FWIW, I love the new Gmail compose as well. It is indeed useful to be able to go through and consult previous emails without doing the back and forth for writing one mail. And I really love Gmail for all the small convenience things they keep on doing, like including a 'Track Package' button in the 'product shipping' email's subject itself ! As far as I know, they were the first to do many innovative things, like drag and drop to attach files! They shouldn't stop trying new things.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by saint-loup »

slg wrote: post #71
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…

While this UI might have changed a little, the feature set isn't new. The Smartlabels Gmail Labs experiment does the same automatic categorizing and filtering. I have used the experiment for a while and it is really pretty good about knowing what is what and in turn minimizing the amount of email that I see as soon as it arrives. In my experience it has been much more helpful than priority inbox system that Google ro…

That's what the Gmail Labs is for: testing features before some of them being released to everyone.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by intrazoo »

piyush_soni wrote: post #153
vidarh wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just FWIW, I love the new Gmail compose as well. It is indeed useful to be able to go through and consult previous emails without doing the back and forth for writing one mail. And I really love Gmail for all the small convenience things they keep on doing, like including a 'Track Package' button in the 'product shipping' email's subject itself ! As far as I know, they were the first to do many innovative things, lik…

I like it too. I can write multiple emails at once, and a chat box will never be in the way of the composer. Maybe there should be a "snap back into page" button thing, but people seem to forget that there is a pop out button if you want a more mono-tasking email style.

Additionally, with this interface, it could be more integrated with hangouts and cross google's services (maybe easier send email pop up on andriod tablets?).

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by nrivadeneira »

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.

Going to add that I love the new compose. What makes you say that it's obnoxious?

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by kapitalx »

piyush_soni wrote: post #153
vidarh wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just FWIW, I love the new Gmail compose as well. It is indeed useful to be able to go through and consult previous emails without doing the back and forth for writing one mail. And I really love Gmail for all the small convenience things they keep on doing, like including a 'Track Package' button in the 'product shipping' email's subject itself ! As far as I know, they were the first to do many innovative things, lik…

it also gives me the ability to have more than one compose window open side by side.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by intrazoo »

saint-loup wrote: post #154
slg wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While this UI might have changed a little, the feature set isn't new. The Smartlabels Gmail Labs experiment does the same automatic categorizing and filtering. I have used the experiment for a while and it is really pretty good about knowing what is what and in turn minimizing the amount of email that I see as soon as it arrives. In my experience it has been much more helpful than priority inbox system that Google ro…

That's what the Gmail Labs is for: testing features before some of them being released to everyone.

You would hardly know how the typical consumer is going to use/like it from that data though (not that I do not agree that that might be a good idea, maybe they just want to get it out soon).

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by piyush_soni »

jcfrei wrote: post #11
pkfrank wrote: post #6

I'm encouraged that they seem to allow you to toggle this new inbox on/off as you wish. In contrast to the "new" compose box which will eventually be forced onto everyone.

I'm just gonna hijack this thread in case any gmail devs are dropping by. the new compose box is a joke - why would you force users to write emails in a small window in the bottom right corner?!

Half of the cribbing about the new compose is unfounded. You see the slanted arrow above the new compose box? Click that. Now you have a whole window to write your message. But the benefits that the new compose gives are quite important for me and many others.

Re: A new Gmail inbox

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Post by intrazoo »

nrivadeneira wrote: post #156
vidarh wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Going to add that I love the new compose. What makes you say that it's obnoxious?

I think some people might think that there is too much clutter in the "background" with that list of emails and all. But, this is not so much a problem if you have a cleared CSS-edited pretty unread/important/read gmail like mine.
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