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I use the mailbox iPhone app. The killer feature for me is that I can snooze an email. It's close to ideal for me. This ability to show multiple inboxes on the desktop might be an interesting tool to add visibility to something on another list.
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.
That seems sort of silly... Various gmail interface changes have annoyed some people, but they're quite small by comparison with the difference with an email client like mutt with a completely different model, and not just the UI model, but mail delivery, storage, backup, and spam-handling, not to mention the integration of gmail with a vast swath of other software.
Certainly mutt (and all the associated things that go with it) are better-liked by some people, but it most certainly isn't going to be easier to learn than new gmail UI for an existing gmail user. Not even close.
I've found that I've done pretty well with the default organization of the Primary/Social/Promotion etc. tabs. Since you can mark any tab as completely read at once, I just keep my todos unread in my Primary tab. A simple search for is:unread displays what I need to work on.
One thing... the multiple inbox feature doesn't appear to work on the iPad Gmail app. My inbox is simply empty... and I don't see the additional inboxes anywhere. Just an FYI for those who go this route.
Being obsessed with productivity I would say sanebox.com is a must have and coupled with the boxer iOS app it truly is the best email solution I have used in the past 20 years. I hate to pay for service in an arena where most is free but the cost of sanebox is worth it to me. I don't work or know anyone at the company so this is truly a not bias recommend. I have zero inbox and a killer reminder capability built in.…