I remember a time (2005) when GMail was hailed as the future of easy to use email. However, I must say, this thing has grown into the most convoluted thing I've ever worked with and I'm not really sure why this is...
Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
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Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#32I'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.
cool stuff. to be honest i only "read" a fraction of my email.
most of the automatic stuff gets filtered into different "newsletter" labels and i never mark them read - would also feel weird doing it because i actually never read them
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#33Amazing :-)
I had a simple question unrelated to post - how is it that there is no ad shown to you on gmail ? Are you using any extension to remove ads ?
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#34Neat hack, I've got something similar setup!
Just as an editing comment: You'll want to change "loose" to "lose" in the article. It's an easy one to mess up!
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#35I 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.
Can't beat Mailbox. Wish they had a desktop app too. The snoozing thing is essential for moving stuff out of my headspace until I can think about it. I wish everything in life had a swipe to snooze.
I enjoy using Mailbox to the point that I rarely use desktop Gmail anymore -- a keyboard on my iPad helps. It's also easy enough to implement the filtered inbox views mentioned in the article for Mailbox folders, allowing the same sorting functionality on mobile (unlike the star-based solution).
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#36looks like my email flow except i'm using a fat client and no gmail. (thunderbird in my case).
i never understood people not doing "zero" inbox and not sorting mail automatically. they're always complaining. email never took me much time and i get about 1K a day. Obviously I don't read 1k a day. Nobody does.
in my case starring = queued for later replies, probably evening or next morning = todo list, or whatever you wanna call it.
inbox = disruptive messages, rare.
some mailboxes = phone alert on new mail (super important stuff, rare)
other mailboxes = sorted archives, stuff i may peruse when it comes in if ive some time/interest.
works fine.
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#37I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email.
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#38I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email .
I have 73k unread emails (most if not all automatic or group). But thanks to my setup not all the time in front of my face when i open my email inbox.
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#39Use Mailbox - www.dropbox.com/mailbox
Re: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
#40looks like my email flow except i'm using a fat client and no gmail. (thunderbird in my case). i never understood people not doing "zero" inbox and not sorting mail automatically. they're always complaining. email never took me much time and i get about 1K a day. Obviously I don't read 1k a day. Nobody does. in my case starring = queued for later replies, probably evening or next morning = todo list, or whatever you…
awesome setup!
personally i can't really use desktop clients anymore. it's super weird if you need to "quickly" check your email somewhere else and all your setup is different.