"My messages are important, god dammit."
no, they aren't. get over it. The new compose does a great job of framing your sent emails in the way your recipients are probably viewing them: quickly, and often from a small screen/window.
Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
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Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#42To avoid being distracted by the gmail inbox and to have a clean composition interface, I always keep this URL bookmarked, and it still works w/ the new compose: https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailt...
Or hold down Control when you click Compose.
Holding shift when you click compose is also a good one to know about. (Opens the compose dialog in a new, dedicated window.)
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#43Why not just hold shift when you click "compose"?
Using shift-click to open in a new window is a fairly standard behaviour in most browsers these days isn't it? Then again I guess it wasn't intuitive in this case. Edit: I should note that the above is actually a genuine question.
Shift-click to open in a new window is a pattern for links. Gmail's 'Compose' doesn't look like a link, it looks like a button.
Shift-clicking the 'search' button doesn't work on Google.com.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#44Lately I've had a persistent feeling of annoyance with several Google products. Each annoyance is small enough to tolerate individually, but in aggregate it seems to me that Google has really lost something in the attention-to-detail department; this kind of persistent annoyance was the same thing that led me to Google from other services years ago. Two examples: - maps: new interface is so terrible that I am activel…
adding to this:
- google voice: selecting 'all' only selects displayed items (calls, missed calls, voicemails, etc) so to delete items, you have to click 'all', then 'delete' then 'all' again. If you have 1000 items in your history, it takes 100 clicks to delete them all. Compare that to gmail - you can select every single message not just those displayed.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#45Lately I've had a persistent feeling of annoyance with several Google products. Each annoyance is small enough to tolerate individually, but in aggregate it seems to me that Google has really lost something in the attention-to-detail department; this kind of persistent annoyance was the same thing that led me to Google from other services years ago. Two examples: - maps: new interface is so terrible that I am activel…
Re: maps, you can revert to "classic" by clicking on the gear.
I tried this, but it keeps forgeting the choice to use the classic maps and I always have to go to the options and pick it again. It's not such a big deal, but yeah, it's annoying.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#46The self-righteous anger about the irredeemable horror of the new Gmail compose is starting to get a bit old. First of all, it's not as one-sided as people are making it out. I was also annoyed when it first came out, but there are some clear benefits. Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload (CTO for a 30-person company). There are some important philosop…
> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win
It was possible to do this before the changes rolled out. Shift-compose opened it (still does) in a new window, and you could work with it and your mailbox side-by-side.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#47The self-righteous anger about the irredeemable horror of the new Gmail compose is starting to get a bit old. First of all, it's not as one-sided as people are making it out. I was also annoyed when it first came out, but there are some clear benefits. Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload (CTO for a 30-person company). There are some important philosop…
> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload
If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.
My main issues, now I've set the default to fullish screen, is it's more like Outlook: editing the To/CC fields is annoying, and it wants you to always quote the entire email.
I await a Chrome extension to let me live in the past with people who knew how to use computers.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#48The shortcuts for CC and BCC help a lot with adding recipients.
Obviously that doesn't do much to solve the problem of it squeezing them all onto one line when you focus out if you're paranoid about recipients.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#49"My messages are important, god dammit." no, they aren't. get over it. The new compose does a great job of framing your sent emails in the way your recipients are probably viewing them: quickly, and often from a small screen/window.
Great point, thinking of it that way gives some insight into why Google may have changed the UI.