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Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Post by hisham_hm »

Excellent. I could see myself using this (especially nowadays that screens are big enough).

Before clicking the link I was afraid this wouid be about "Priority Inbox" or any other way to let Google categorize my email for me, which I don't trust them to do other than the spam filter.

Lately, however, the constant UI changes are driving me into thinking about moving from web-based GMail to some other, more stable alternative for reading email. (Really, I'm even considering adopting a terminal client like mutt. At least I know _that_ I'll be able to keep using exactly the same way 10 years from now.)

Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Post by andreasklinger »

hisham_hm wrote: post #4

Excellent. I could see myself using this (especially nowadays that screens are big enough). Before clicking the link I was afraid this wouid be about "Priority Inbox" or any other way to let Google categorize my email for me, which I don't trust them to do other than the spam filter. Lately, however, the constant UI changes are driving me into thinking about moving from web-based GMail to some other, more stable alte…

(author here) I have the same angst about interface changes. I am so extremely dependent on being effective in gmail. If they ever force me to use one of the new interfaces of Gmail, it will be a new client for me to learn, thus i might as well learn a completely new client - like eg mutt.

Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Post by andreasklinger »

jgodin wrote: post #5

For those interested in trying this, it's worth noting that you'll need to disable some things like the tabbed inbox. The step-by-step eventually mentions this, but until you get to that point you won't see any sign of the multiple inbox UI.

(author here)

Absolutely true. I mention at some point. Should i pull this earlier to make it more clear?

Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Post by jgodin »

andreasklinger wrote: post #7
jgodin wrote: post #5

For those interested in trying this, it's worth noting that you'll need to disable some things like the tabbed inbox. The step-by-step eventually mentions this, but until you get to that point you won't see any sign of the multiple inbox UI.

(author here) Absolutely true. I mention at some point. Should i pull this earlier to make it more clear?

Probably wouldn't hurt to at least point out that you won't see anything change until you get to the "turn that stuff off" step.

It also took me a little longer than it probably should have to figure out where "Choose right side layout" was configured.

Thanks for writing up your technique!

Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

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Post by jacalata »

You don't need to enable auto-archive if you learned all the keyboard shortcuts: [ and ] are 'remove from current view and go to next/previous', which removes the email from the inbox if that's where you process mail. ( or { } to explicitly archive from any view)
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