A new Gmail inbox

I use multiple accounts for this kind of filtering, main account, shopping account and throw-away account.

On the one hand I see this as the Office-ification of gmail, the accumulation of useless features that add bulk and complexity but not utility. On the other, this is Google's reaction to the phenomenon of people signing up for multiple things from their email account and getting cluttered as a consequence. Not for me but probably of great use to people with lots of social- and shopping- traffic.

Hate to be the guy that goes offtopic, but the gender and target bias on the ad bothered me.

So, girls are all about knitting, dates, having their nails painted and buying shoes? I know they just took some trends (knitting and lindy hop), but I found the ad awkwardly worded.

Maybe it's just referring to personal inboxes, or someone that does not know how to keep the inbox clean, or how gmail is supposed to make your day easier, I don't know.

Have to interject here on the off chance that some gmail engineers are paying attention. That's nice that you like it, but forcing the new compose on users is just plain inexcusable. It breaks a number of things for me that I actually use in my work on a daily basis.

Here are just 4 things that it breaks for me (note: copied from elsewhere):

1) When you hit "forward", it hides the subject box, even though the majority of the time when I hit forward I want to delete the "Fwd:" from the subject line. Especially when sending a form email. This resulted in a couple of embarrassing emails before I changed back to the old compose.

2) I often want to create a big list of emails that I want to review before hitting send. The new compose replaces each email address I type with the persons name! For a lot of people I do business with, I have both their business and personal email address. But now I can't tell which one I'm about to email. What the hell Google?

3) Attachments are now an object within the email. But often I want to forward something with an attachment, but clear out the text in the email. Well now when I do select-all, it deletes the attachment also.

4) The compose email doesn't cover my screen, even when I pop it out as its own window. When I'm drafting an email, I don't want to be able to see distractions. If other emails pop up while I'm editing it, that can make me lose my train of thought. Worse, there are no options that I can set to change this.

aren't games on google+ now being deprecated? anyway, I think one logic game there had an internal scoreboard (as it was being published from many other locations) and scoreboard copy was also being pushed to g+.

I love the new icons! I've been using gMail in fluid (http://fluidapp.com) and had to dig around for a decent icon. As someone who favors flat design (I know, I know, buzz word), I like the simplicity of the new ones they show at the end of the video.