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Just a heads up, if the creator is reading here, your page loads 0 content with javascript blocked. A minimal plea for javascript unblocking might gain you extra traffic - I know I didn't care enough to add you to my whitelist, since I had NOTHING to go on.
You intentionally disabled a chunk of your web browser, and are now complaining that some websites don't look right?
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> concepts such as embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder, embracing that tagging is better than folders. I don't know if it was there from the beginning, but I have always used rules which say "apply filter and skip inbox" effectively giving me separate folders. To each his own; I don't like kitchen-sink inbox, and like separate folders to just tagging…
Sure, re: skipping inbox, me too. But tagging allows you to have a folder-like appearance but removes to 1:1 relationship. I can have a folder of 'emails sent to me specifically' and an 'emails from my accountant' that happens to have the same message. This is super useful.
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Sure, re: skipping inbox, me too. But tagging allows you to have a folder-like appearance but removes to 1:1 relationship. I can have a folder of 'emails sent to me specifically' and an 'emails from my accountant' that happens to have the same message. This is super useful.
This is a great feature but is older than GMail. Lotus Notes mail for instance allowed the same mail to appear in different views, including an "all documents" view that had, as you might expect, everything in it. This advance was rather let down by the rest of the Notes client interface however: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
I've just installed OS X Mountain Lion... and gone back to Apple's Mail (no more Sparrow). I'm too tired of chasing another email/to-do client that might get acq-hired, with no future support. Having said that, the idea behind .mail app is elegant, well thought and a step forward. Kudos.
What do you mean no more Sparrow? Last time I checked, it's still available for download. My understanding was that it just isn't in active development anymore. I use it as my primary mail client on my personal machine, and it does pretty much everything I'd want as is.
It's got a great UI and I love it, but it's buggy as hell. Slow, sometimes doesn't refresh, the DB grows to 10s of GBs.
As much as I like it, the fact that there's not going to be any more updates has gotten me to switch off it.
Software is fluid, not static. Any software that is not being updated, I believe any rational user should move on to ones that are.
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Sure, re: skipping inbox, me too. But tagging allows you to have a folder-like appearance but removes to 1:1 relationship. I can have a folder of 'emails sent to me specifically' and an 'emails from my accountant' that happens to have the same message. This is super useful.
Tagging also existed in Opera's email client as virtual folders, back when it was known as M2.
actionsteps are stars in gmail, i use yellow & red bang, and red star .. just press s to rotate,
attachments have never been an issue but maybe thats just me, searching for "from:a@b has:att" is quite quick enough
and using filters & labels gives me the notification functionality, e.g. messages from facebook get a label, i can see facebook (3) or whatever on the left, but it will work for any type of email i wish.
"meh" is my main reaction to this, unless it has something new and is as transparent to synchronisation across devices as gmail i won't be interested
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Just off the top of my head you know what I would like to see as an email interface: Reddit. Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. Different users can reply in a threaded way to all the recipients of the message etc. Obviously it would need in-line attachements and in-line pictures. It would be interesting to allow a vote system on messages. Rather than file them, you…
Google Wave tried to fix that problem but with the radical change in the way we use email, it failed.
If you had some sort of standard with various different native clients, then it might work.
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Do you use reddit? As cookingrobot says, gmails threading is one dimensional and super clunky when you have lots of replies. It auto collapses to far so you can't easily reply to a particular message in the thread. Reddit has the best comment threading system of any site online. Quora is near the worst. HN is just slightly frustrating.
I thought reddit and HN were using the same system. What's the difference?
Whoo boy does that site ever not work without javascript... Sort of ridiculous since it's a static page advertising a desktop app, neither of which should require javascript at all. EDIT: Oh God, and hot pink highlighting does NOT complement their color scheme. And for all its javascript fanciness, it doesn't handle resizing at all. Sorry to be so negative, this site just pushes all my buttons.
What sort of sites are you visiting that do work without javascript?