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Re: Google Inbox

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Post by killerpopiller »

Lewisham wrote: post #174
cjslep wrote: post #167

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Does it work across accounts? For instance, I have a personal email and a university email that is gmail-based. I believe they are already linked account-wise, but having to manually swap between both inboxes in gmail is a constant annoyance. Edit: "Across" in the sense that everything comes in one workflow, and isn't two separate workflows. I dislike having to back out and select a new account to see each set of ema…

You'll still have to go in and out accounts as you do now, but Gmails "Send As" feature came over, so that might help?

but be aware, "send as" isn't disguising the base email.account in the free gmail-non-business-version: e.g. outlook shows which smtp-server was used.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by dmix »

GI_Josh wrote: post #223

I recently spent the better part of a day clearing out my work inbox because I'd heard too many people preach about inbox 0, and how the only things in their inbox were things they actively needed to work on. This worked for all of two days for me. Now, a week later, my inbox is once again packed, with nothing being moved or deleted, just read. That's just a flow that seems to work better for me. My to-do lists that…

You should probably work on getting less email then. I find zero inbox easy to do. It takes practice, but I also unsub from newsletters and reduced my work load. Tons of email is a symptom of either over-loading yourself with work or not managing how you communicate with people well.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by jmgrosen »

gknoy wrote: post #244
StevePerkins wrote: post #200

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I read the original link, and watched the video on that page, and had pretty much the same reaction as the parent commenter. If this service is perfectly clear to you, then please elaborate for the rest of us. It appears to be sorting and arranging various bits of data. The examples shown include messages, and a flight reservation. What all kinds of data bits DO integrate? Does this read my email (or replace it)? Doe…

The landing page for inbox.google.com, if you scroll down slowly as you read it, seemed to explain it very well, and showcased example workflows. The video didn't convert me, but the website did.

Are you kidding, or are you seeing a different page than me? Literally all the page has for me is an "Inbox by Gmail" logo on top and some text below for "Already have an invitation?" and "Need an invitation?". No information whatsoever.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by imaginenore »

taeric wrote: post #33
scrollaway wrote: post #18

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Are you serious? Are you saying Google, which has revolutionized webmail and is one of the largest and most popular email providers, doesn't "get" email?

Oddly, I agree. GMail is nice, but every time they try and remake email they completely mess up. Remember, Wave was supposed to be the next email, as well. Heck, they even had some odd push to get me to "plus" messages to people instead of emailing them. 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. The non-threaded messages was actually s…

Google Wave was actually cool, it wasn't just an app, it was a protocol. Too bad it didn't take off.

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Post by huntaub »

kristofferR wrote: post #227
tmhedberg wrote: post #172

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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.

Mailbox is an all-in-one email client. Gmail is a webmail client for your (singular) Gmail account.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

huntaub wrote: post #255
kristofferR wrote: post #227

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That's a massive shame. Weird that Mailbox/Dropbox manages to do it with Gmail, but Google doesn't.

Mailbox is an all-in-one email client. Gmail is a webmail client for your (singular) Gmail account.

Gmail on mobile (both Android and iOS) both handle multiple Gmail accounts gracefully (personal, google apps, etc). To merge them seamlessly in the interface would be trivial.

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Post by mncolinlee »

epalm wrote: post #140
GuiA wrote: post #19

Congrats to Google on shipping! Side question: am I the only person fully satisfied by my email workflow? I practice inbox 0- if an email is in my inbox, it means something needs to be done about it (whether it's replying, filing a bug report, writing a patch, etc). Once it's done, it gets archived. I star the stuff that I'll need to refer to later, like tickets for a flight or concert. I then have a few server side…

To those who think inbox-0 is a waste of time, because you can just search for email, so why spend even a second organizing it: what causes you to remember to reply to an email sent to you 3 days ago, which is now the 119th email in your inbox? I subscribe to inbox-0 because emails in my inbox need attention of some kind. I'm not advocating spending an inordinate amount of time organizing every email with labels and…

Honestly, the workaround I always used for this is starring the e-mail or Boomerang it if it's really important. Also, mailing lists and social coupons get filtered immediately.

Boomerang is pretty similar to some features of Inbox.

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Post by nirvdrum »

wutbrodo wrote: post #241
JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #236

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That defeats the point of separate emails...

Not really, given that you can quite easily filter emails that you receive from your other address. I use exactly this workflow and it's much more useful than having them in separate inboxes (i.e. doesn't "defeat the purpose").

I tried it and found I constantly was sending email from the wrong account. While that's on me, it was evident I was never going to get it right either, so I went back to separate accounts.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by covi »

Eventual consistency / Lost Updates at play? I have tried sweeping the "Low Priority" emails; whenever I clicked the tick that group entry was gone. So far so good. However, whenever a new email popped up and was classified in that group, the whole group appeared again.

Or am I just misunderstanding the feature and do I just have to mark individual email as done one by one?

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by gibrown »

r00fus wrote: post #215
gibrown wrote: post #54

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The fact that you had to configure and maintain 119 filters is the indication that email is broken IMO.

I have 63 filters right now for my personal mail, somewhat less (17) for my work email where I am a bit more diligent about sorting (and where filters can be more complex). 119 is completely sane.

Of course its sane. I also have over a hundred. But if your system requires that I manually build and maintain hundreds of filters I still think something is broken. Its just an awful user experience.
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