Can not find the Invite option..
Google Inbox
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Re: Google Inbox
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It doesn't integrate multiple accounts into a single inbox, if that's what you mean. It works the same as Gmail in that respect.
That's a massive shame. Weird that Mailbox/Dropbox manages to do it with Gmail, but Google doesn't.
Why don't you just have your emails forwarded from one account to another?
Re: Google Inbox
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I seem to be the only person in the world whose email is only broken since forced to use GMail on a work account (and Thunderbird totally fails at using the IMAP thing). I mean, searching for "vpn" doesn't give me the mail that contains "openvpn"? Or it's that incompatible to my workflow that not even RTFM works...
Search is hilariously bad in all email clients, including gmail. Google managed to solve searching on the web by just throwing enough information in it until you kinda always got what you wanted to know. But that doesn't work for email, because there just isn't more info to throw at it than what's in your mailbox. You need to actually have decent search algorithms. And those are apparently too difficult to write, sin…
Not all email clients.
Re: Google Inbox
#234Can not find the Invite option..
I don't have Inbox yet, but I don't think everyone gets invites immediately. Anyways, here's some info:
> Once you have an invite, you can hover over the red create button and you will see a gold ticket - Invite to Inbox. Select that to enter your friend's email address and send the invitation. > Quick note: if you received an invite from a friend today, your 3 invites to share won't be available until this Friday.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/nCtyOEbZH...
Re: Google Inbox
#235This is the first step towards some of the functionality in the movie "Her."
Trusting an AI (or algorithm in this case) to sort your email and bubble up different aspects is a huge task, and I'm glad to see Google finally start putting their full might behind it.
Re: Google Inbox
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#237Is it just me, or do all these attempts to mould e-mail to avoid cognitive overload just create cognitive overload.
"E-mail - a list of messages from people, by default displayed in the order they arrived." Isn't that simplicity refreshing?
Re: Google Inbox
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And really, I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail other than a) free, b) lots of space, and c) google's name Originally? Lots of space, yes, but search and speed were big ones, as were threaded conversations, labels instead of folders, built-in gchat (that might have been later), amazing spam filtering, POP3 and eventually IMAP access. Since then, priority inbox has been a huge win for me, and I don'…
Oh, I realize things have grown. And I am in no way saying that I am unhappy with gmail. Just that I can't really remember what drew me to it. Spam filtering isn't something I remember it being much better at. (Well, it was better than other free options, but I had a paid email back then.) The rest was really just permission to not use folders. Did they even have labels at the outset? I recall there was a big cry ove…
> Maybe it was just labels were simpler...
Labels used not to be nestable.
Re: Google Inbox
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
can you explain to me the advantage of archiving a message over just letting it rest in a read state in your inbox? I've never been able to see an added value to it.
I have two groups of emails: "professional" and "online" ones. I'll "inbox 0" my "professional" emails, archiving, deleting, and snoozing emails. For my "online" emails, I don't do any management, it's just a giant inbox of every email I've received. The advantage I find to archiving messages is just a slight psychological boost. When the inbox is empty, I know I have nothing to do. If I have try to keep these inboxe…
What do you do about long-duration TODO items, like "Fix XYZ bug", which are a lower priority than your current tasks? I tend to Star those in Gmail, and leave them read but not-archived.
Some of these threads (for me) are good explanations/resources about a particular problem, but which I can't act on yet as $OtherTask is higher priority. I have Jira tickets for most of these, but even so the inbox helps remind me (roughly monthly) that things are still Not Fixed, whereas a TODO label would end up being unread.
Maybe it's just that I've been depending on that and have NOT been using a TODO or similar label for things, and thus am not in the habit of checking for New Things in my filtered labels. I'll have to think about this more. Thanks in advance for your insight. :)
Re: Google Inbox
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also do inbox 0 the exact same way you do but sometimes it's not enough. For example, if an online retailer sends me promotions I don't care about, I'd like them to be auto-archived for when I actually feel like buying something, but I don't want to miss my purchase confirmations. Google's new categories help and Inbox sounds promising but I feel like there's too much assumption going on in parsing the emails. Real…
Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...
I've tried plus addressing. Some websites annoyingly don't accept them :(