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also the spam inbox (what they are trying to label as offers or something on gmail) is not part of the priority inbox.
besides that, and all the smiling happy people in the Ad, all i could grasp is that they added lots and lots of white space around each message to compensate for the humongous size of that phone screen.
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First: Why do you think they created a completely new app rather than integrating features into the gmail app one by one? I understand it has a good integration of Google Now in it, but Google Now itself works very nice for me (Like showing important stuff from my gmail). Thanks!
From ethnographic research, this is a good move by Google. People enjoy a blank slate or 'fresh start'. By starting from Inbox 0, people can enjoy that feeling. Contrast this with integrating into Gmail where people have thousands of emails in their inbox.
What I always wonder - do people actually use email for private communication? Everybody uses email at work, but at home? From time to time I sign up for a new service or order something and get confirmation mails or I send a couple of emails back and forth to resolve an issue with a service I am using, but it is always between me and some business. The number of emails I have written to or received from friends is n…
Not sure how much value my data point is worth to you, but yes, I use email for personal communication. I also use most of the RTC/IM methods as well, but email is the best communication tool because it allows for a wide variety of content (text/images/attachments) while being cross platform. Any device with even the slowest internet access and either an email client or a web browser can be a terminal for someone to…
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The value can be small (or nonexistent), but I like to know that everything in my inbox needs to be acted on/processed, rather than having to determine whether I've already done it or not. You can do this while leaving everything in the inbox by toggling the read/unread tags, but I'd rather not. Similarly, I've never seen the advantage of leaving old emails in my inbox rather than just archiving everything without la…
ah, my approach has been anything in my inbox that is unread is either requiring of action on it, or unread.
For my work email, I try to practice inbox-0. Every message either gets an immediate action, or it's filed away as a task on my todo list (including the URL for the message in Gmail), and then archived.
Is Inbox going to be broken on GApps accounts like Now is?
Disclaimer: Googler In what way do you think Now is broken with GApps accounts? I use Now with GApps, and don't know what you're referring to.
What I always wonder - do people actually use email for private communication? Everybody uses email at work, but at home? From time to time I sign up for a new service or order something and get confirmation mails or I send a couple of emails back and forth to resolve an issue with a service I am using, but it is always between me and some business. The number of emails I have written to or received from friends is n…
I may be an odd one, but I use email for personal things. If messaging a group of people, there's inevitably someone who refuses to get Facebook or doesn't have a smartphone or never checks their texts or something. At the same time, everybody has an email address that's checked at least daily (at university, and email's how anything course-related is communicated). By emailing, it removes the cognitive step of worki…
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Have you considered using Mailbox[0]? I also do the Inbox Zero thing, and absolutely love the overview it gives me of what I need to do. With Mailbox, you'll "snooze" mails and it'll be like they get delivered to you at the later specified time. I recently sat my parents down, installed mailbox on their devices, and instructed them how to use the app. Amazingly enough, they now constantly use it, and aim for the zero…
I liked Mailbox but Dropbox own it and I'm more and more concerned about how they handle my privacy. Add to that that for Mailbox to work your emails have to be stored on their servers (AFAIK, please tell me if I'm wrong) I switched away.