FFS! I finally managed to get into using Inbox, and Google is being google again and killing the project.
I guess there’s something to the adage that you shouldn’t use anything google if you want it to last.
Google is discontinuing Inbox
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted: search, email, ads (which is search, really). [edit] oh, and maps!
Google Docs? Calendar? Groups? YouTube? Plus Android and Chrome, of course.
They bought Youtube and it served Ads. Calendar is part of Gmail. Groups is pretty much dead and hasn't been upgraded in years. Android and Chrome are part of Ads. Docs is probably the only new feature that they've developed, but people pay a good amount of money for it.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like they transitioned it to a dedicated Tasks app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-tasks-get-things-done...
But, like all of their tasks in the past, those Tasks are in an entirely separate database. So as I see it, there are currently three Google taskesque databases: - Classic Calendar tasks - Reminders (Calendar, Inbox, Assistant) - Tasks (Sidebar in Gmail, Calendar, and Docs) Correct me if I'm wrong? They merge and create new task databases all the time it seems, so it's hard to keep straight.
The sidebar tasks is the same as the classic tasks, just a new view. If you they will appear on the old tasks interface and on calendar if you add a date.
The third tasks interface is in keep ;)
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#304Google's penchant for killing products is why I moved away from them for even their stable products. I want a company to be okay with having a stable platform of boring work to build exciting things on top of and Google isn't that company. Add to that my lack of trust in Google to not spy even when it says it won't, and it was just a perfect series of events. I honestly think the phone jack removal might have been the defining moment when I decided to move to an iPhone 6S. They will pry that phone jack from my cold dead hands.
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#305Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…
In the hope there is a google employee reading this, i want to shout a big plus one here! The next time the chance to look at the latest Microsoft offering comes up, I’ll do it, using vanilla gmail is just so clunky compared to inbox and i don’t want to go back to it.
Yes. Thank you! Snoozing emails changed my life.
The one thing I miss from Inbox is being able to see my Done/Archived emails in the order archived. (So I can see recently archived emails, even if they're old emails.)
Swipe to snooze would also be nice.
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#306I don't mean to throw out the same old "you can't get attached to Google products because they kill them at any time" thing, but holy shit, this one feels like a real kick in the balls. Email is one of my most important workflows and I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years attaching myself to the zero inbox mindset through the bundles feature and having my reminders as first class citizens in the inbo…
I never even tried Inbox because I didn't trust that it wouldn't get killed. Ironically I was just thinking about finally giving it a try since it survived longer than I expected.
I logged in for the first time to see what it was.. same deal here, have stopped adopting new Google products since 2013 (the Reader debacle naturally)
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#307Hmm, maybe we should create an open source version of inbox?
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#308Brutal. Hope someone builds an Inbox replacement before next March. Gmail feels archaic after Inbox.
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#309This is really unfortunate. Inbox's primary differentiator was never in any one individual feature like Snooze or Smart Reply. No, the real value of Inbox was that its design was built around a fundamentally different philosophy on what email is and how it should be managed. Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, del…
> Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, delete them, or just leave them in your inbox forever. Not that long ago, gmail was a radically new way to deal with email. 1) aggregating emails from a single conversation in your inbox - yes, on the old days, every incoming email was a line in your inbox. 2) providing archiv…
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3- a search function that worked well and instantaneously.
and you kind of covered it, but just to make it explicit- provided what was practically unlimited storage for the time- 2GB. Competitors were offering 5, maybe 10MB. I remember people hacking together a file system out of it because that was so astoundingly large for the time.
The fact that gmail is now taken for granted is quite interesting though, it really was astoundingly revolutionary at the time and really built the halo image around Google.
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#310I suggest you voice your opinion here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm...